People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EEA DD DD FGF HEI AJK LM NC LA OP QR| No people are uninteresting | A |
| Their fate is like the chronicle of planets | B |
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| Nothing in them in not particular | C |
| and planet is dissimilar from planet | D |
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| And if a man lived in obscurity | E |
| making his friends in that obscurity | E |
| obscurity is not uninteresting | A |
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| To each his world is private | D |
| and in that world one excellent minute | D |
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| And in that world one tragic minute | D |
| These are private | D |
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| In any man who dies there dies with him | F |
| his first snow and kiss and fight | G |
| it goes with him | F |
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| There are left books and bridges | H |
| and painted canvas and machinery | E |
| Whose fate is to survive | I |
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| But what has gone is also not nothing | A |
| by the rule of the game something has gone | J |
| Not people die but worlds die in them | K |
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| Whom we knew as faulty the earth's creatures | L |
| Of whom essentially what did we know | M |
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| Brother of a brother Friend of friends | N |
| Lover of lover | C |
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| We who knew our fathers | L |
| in everything in nothing | A |
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| They perish They cannot be brought back | O |
| The secret worlds are not regenerated | P |
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| And every time again and again | Q |
| I make my lament against destruction | R |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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