Tomorrow's Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEDEFGHIHJKJBJJJ ELDMJNJEDDCJJJJJJDOE DJPDDJJQPJRHJDJDJ BSTHUVDWBEJEXKDDYDRD EUBZEA2B2UVDC2D2EVDD DDE2EF2BDEDRDREKEG2D E D

Why am I without joyA
achieving everythingB
but graspingB
nothing at allC
I dream of the windD
that has overtaken meE
the windD
that has leaped over meE
It shredsF
all the telephone lines that sagG
from unending chatterH
and all that's wastedI
all that's turned sourH
it catapultsJ
into oblivionK
All sorts of butwhatifersJ
shakingB
like jelly in jacketsJ
whirled up in a vortexJ
like fallen leavesJ
shout down indignantlyE
'How come 'L
Where there's no windD
there's no faithM
Let clammy red pencilsJ
be strewnN
among the reedsJ
scattered madlyE
by tomorrow's windD
WindD
does not crawlC
before idolsJ
it swirls scrapsJ
of newspapers and postersJ
yesterday's gloriesJ
turning somersaultsJ
over warped roofsJ
As if it had swilledD
the Decembrists' hot punchO
tipsyE
the wind flings upwardD
all the important little papersJ
that press us downP
to the groundD
The windD
showersJ
under constellationsJ
the garbageQ
in which the world is bogged downP
automobilesJ
which have ridden over peopleR
furnitureH
which has sprawled on usJ
The windD
pulls away from sticky screensJ
all the bewitchedD
simpletons and foolsJ
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and without thinkingB
plants themS
like shashlikT
on the spike of their beloved TV towerH
Timid youthU
I am preaching to youV
Charge forwardD
headlong into the epochW
without wastingB
the wind of historyE
either on fadsJ
or the flimsyE
EachX
new generationK
must createD
a special windD
If it doesn't shakeY
bits of dustD
young peopleR
should sendD
an SOSE
YouthU
is the age for a fresh airingB
In old ageZ
it's harder to be precociousE
if you put offA2
being youngB2
in your youthU
Is it possible for youV
all to be unfitD
Suck in the timeC2
with a feverous mouthD2
The calm will beE
inhaled by youV
by the windD
exhaledD
afterwardD
And the windD
making a gift of itselfE2
to the universeE
is bornF2
sprawlingB
in a burstD
and structuresE
built on sandD
rightfully will crumbleR
And I having rearedD
these structures not a littleR
will look on happilyE
blaming no oneK
as it withdrawsE
arching its maneG2
the windD
that has leaped over meE
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Translated by Albert C ToddD

Yevgeny Yevtushenko



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