Tomorrow's Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEDEFGHIHJKJBJJJ ELDMJNJEDDCJJJJJJDOE DJPDDJJQPJRHJDJDJ BSTHUVDWBEJEXKDDYDRD EUBZEA2B2UVDC2D2EVDD DDE2EF2BDEDRDREKEG2D E DWhy am I without joy | A |
achieving everything | B |
but grasping | B |
nothing at all | C |
I dream of the wind | D |
that has overtaken me | E |
the wind | D |
that has leaped over me | E |
It shreds | F |
all the telephone lines that sag | G |
from unending chatter | H |
and all that's wasted | I |
all that's turned sour | H |
it catapults | J |
into oblivion | K |
All sorts of butwhatifers | J |
shaking | B |
like jelly in jackets | J |
whirled up in a vortex | J |
like fallen leaves | J |
shout down indignantly | E |
'How come ' | L |
Where there's no wind | D |
there's no faith | M |
Let clammy red pencils | J |
be strewn | N |
among the reeds | J |
scattered madly | E |
by tomorrow's wind | D |
Wind | D |
does not crawl | C |
before idols | J |
it swirls scraps | J |
of newspapers and posters | J |
yesterday's glories | J |
turning somersaults | J |
over warped roofs | J |
As if it had swilled | D |
the Decembrists' hot punch | O |
tipsy | E |
the wind flings upward | D |
all the important little papers | J |
that press us down | P |
to the ground | D |
The wind | D |
showers | J |
under constellations | J |
the garbage | Q |
in which the world is bogged down | P |
automobiles | J |
which have ridden over people | R |
furniture | H |
which has sprawled on us | J |
The wind | D |
pulls away from sticky screens | J |
all the bewitched | D |
simpletons and fools | J |
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and without thinking | B |
plants them | S |
like shashlik | T |
on the spike of their beloved TV tower | H |
Timid youth | U |
I am preaching to you | V |
Charge forward | D |
headlong into the epoch | W |
without wasting | B |
the wind of history | E |
either on fads | J |
or the flimsy | E |
Each | X |
new generation | K |
must create | D |
a special wind | D |
If it doesn't shake | Y |
bits of dust | D |
young people | R |
should send | D |
an SOS | E |
Youth | U |
is the age for a fresh airing | B |
In old age | Z |
it's harder to be precocious | E |
if you put off | A2 |
being young | B2 |
in your youth | U |
Is it possible for you | V |
all to be unfit | D |
Suck in the time | C2 |
with a feverous mouth | D2 |
The calm will be | E |
inhaled by you | V |
by the wind | D |
exhaled | D |
afterward | D |
And the wind | D |
making a gift of itself | E2 |
to the universe | E |
is born | F2 |
sprawling | B |
in a burst | D |
and structures | E |
built on sand | D |
rightfully will crumble | R |
And I having reared | D |
these structures not a little | R |
will look on happily | E |
blaming no one | K |
as it withdraws | E |
arching its mane | G2 |
the wind | D |
that has leaped over me | E |
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Translated by Albert C Todd | D |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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