Pitching And Reeling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFGHFIJKKKAKFLA MNOPKAQARSEKAMTLKKRU VKWXYDRRZA2KKE B2| Here we go We're re e eling | A |
| The glass framed instructions | B |
| rip off their nails | C |
| A record player bashes you in the head | D |
| with Doris Day | E |
| Borscht lazing in the galley | F |
| takes off straight up splashing madly | F |
| A bay leaf from the borscht | G |
| stuck to the ceiling steams | H |
| Reel on buddy | F |
| Sure you'd like to catch hold of a bush or some grass | I |
| with your hands | J |
| The cabin boy staggers | K |
| The helmsman staggers | K |
| The boatswain staggers | K |
| I'm staggering | A |
| The waves like wolfhounds | K |
| You're just the same Twentieth Century | F |
| right left left right up down down up | L |
| Reeling | A |
| All instructions shatter | M |
| all the portraits smash to hell | N |
| Faces are death white drawn wasted rat like screech | O |
| And all over the place it's dense with kasha | P |
| with downwind screams | K |
| nothing but pitching and rolling staggering curving | A |
| with the taste of sick stomach in your mouth | Q |
| Reeling A barrel jumps down the deck | A |
| throwing itself at people | R |
| Hey old buddies we're in for it now | S |
| but keep it cool anyway | E |
| Crawl out of your cabins otherwise | K |
| it's kaput for us all Reeling | A |
| But the eyes of the harpooner | M |
| a ring tailed roarer are strained | T |
| and his forelock's standing straight up | L |
| He makes a soundless sign to the sailors | K |
| and steals sideways | K |
| with a rope to the flipped out barrel | R |
| and pitches himself like a cat | U |
| splitting open the crowd | V |
| For he knows | K |
| you bastard pitch and roll | W |
| things can get rough | X |
| He's learned by heart | Y |
| right through his skin his red head | D |
| He's had it beat down through his skull | R |
| Either you jump on the barrel | R |
| or it'll jump all over you | Z |
| We're reeling But the barrel's still it's no longer running wild | A2 |
| We're reeling Clear weather won't run off from us | K |
| Reeling We may be seasick darkness in front of our eyes | K |
| But we'll out reel you bad trip anyway | E |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | |
| Translated by James Dickey with Anthony Kahn | B2 |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
<< Weddings Poem
Fury Poem>>