In Jest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGHIIIIJKJK LMLMNOPO G| Goodbye fame Put someone else in my niche | A |
| I'd swap a seat in the President's jeep | B |
| for a warm corner in a ditch | A |
| where I could go soundly off to sleep | B |
| Oh how I would unload my fears | C |
| pour all my deadly dreary pride | D |
| into the burdocks' hairy ears | C |
| as I lay fidgeting on my side | D |
| And I would wake up with unshaven chin | E |
| amongst the bugs and little insects | F |
| Oh how marvelously unknown | G |
| someone fit to dance gypsy steps | H |
| Far off people would grasp for power | I |
| hang by their nails from the top of the tower | I |
| but none of this would send me sour | I |
| in a ditch I would be lower | I |
| And there embracing a mangy dog | J |
| I would lie down and make my berth | K |
| in the friendly dust holding dialogue | J |
| on the highest level of the earth | K |
| Alongside the bare feet of a girl | L |
| would float innocently by | M |
| and pale blades of grass would twirl | L |
| down from the haycarts between me and the sky | M |
| On a bench a smoker would toss out | N |
| a cigarette pack squashed and empty | O |
| and from the label the twisted mouth | P |
| of Blok would sadly smile at me | O |
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| Translated by Geoffrey Dutton with Igor Mezhakoff Koriakin | G |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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