I Dreamed I Already Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA ABCDE FGHI AJKL MJKKN OP Q M R| I dreamed I already loved you | A |
| I dreamed I already killed you | A |
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| But you rose again another form but you | A |
| a girl on the little ball of the earth | B |
| naive simplicity curve necked | C |
| on that early canvas of Picasso | D |
| and prayed to me with your ribs | E |
| 'Love me ' as though you said 'Don't push me off ' | - |
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| I'm that played out grown up acrobat | F |
| hunchbacked with senseless muscles | G |
| who knows that advice is a lie | H |
| that sooner or later there's falling | I |
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| I'm too scared to say 'I love you ' | - |
| because I'd be saying 'I'll kill you ' | - |
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| For in the depths of a face I can see through | A |
| I see the faces can't count them | J |
| that right on the spot or maybe | K |
| not right away I tortured to death | L |
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| You're pale from the mortal balance You say | M |
| 'I know everything I was all of them | J |
| I know you've already loved me | K |
| I know you've already killed me | K |
| But I won't spin the globe backwards | N |
| Love again and then kill again ' | - |
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| Lord you're young Stop your globe | O |
| I'm tired of killing I'm not a damn thing but old | P |
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| You move the earth beneath your little feet | Q |
| you fall 'Love me ' | - |
| It's only in those eyes so similar you say | M |
| 'This time don't kill me ' | - |
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| Translated by James Dickey with Anthony Kahn revised | R |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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