Let's Not.. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFGABCHIJKABLFM ANOPQBARSTUVWABXYZA2 B2C2 D2| Let's not | A |
| Everything's ghostly | B |
| the blank windows watching | C |
| the snow reddening behind the stoplights of the cars | D |
| Let's not | A |
| Everything's ghostly lost in mist | E |
| like a garden in March emptied of men and women | F |
| paraded by shadows | G |
| Let's not | A |
| I stand by a tree | B |
| not speaking undeceiving facing | C |
| the double glare of the headlights | H |
| and with a quiet hand touch | I |
| but do not break | J |
| the tender icicle imprisoning a twig | K |
| Let's not | A |
| I see you in the sleepy reeling trolley | B |
| with spectral Moscow rocking in the window | L |
| your cheek propped on a child's wool mitten | F |
| thinking of me with a woman's rancor | M |
| Let's not | A |
| You'll be a woman soon enough subtle and worn | N |
| hungry for praise for the balm of a caress | O |
| it will be March again | P |
| a callow boy will whisper in your ear | Q |
| your head will whirl inconsolably | B |
| Let's not | A |
| for both your sakes | R |
| don't stroll with him down the slippery path | S |
| don't place | T |
| your insubordinate hands | U |
| upon his shoulders | V |
| even as I do not place them today | W |
| Let's not | A |
| Oh disbelieve like me in the ghostly city | B |
| Be spared | X |
| from waking in the wasteland terrified | Y |
| Say 'Let's not ' | Z |
| bending your head | A2 |
| as I this moment | B2 |
| say 'Let's not ' to you | C2 |
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| Translated by Stanley Kunitz with Anthony Kahn | D2 |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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