The Inexpressible Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EA FG HD IJK DL MA BNN O| I want what's inexpressible | A |
| Impudent I play with fire without a queen | B |
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| My queen reason is under the knight's hooves | C |
| What joy to lose to the fire | D |
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| What flaming in the uncombed night | E |
| From slender you as from a candle | A |
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| How you've fired up | F |
| The idea of sin | G |
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| I writhe but the cry of my flesh is bliss | H |
| The heretic is already freed by the fire | D |
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| Gul'ripshi | I |
| New York Paris Madrid in flames | J |
| And someone dear to me burns in them | K |
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| But if from the heretic's fire | D |
| The flame leaps to some poor bastard's roof | L |
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| All the heretic burns for | M |
| Shall be forever damned to hell | A |
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| For truth when you burn down the scene | B |
| of someone nearby | N |
| Is no longer truth but a lie | N |
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| Translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti with Anthony Kahn | O |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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