Wounds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD AEFG HAIJ K| I have been wounded so often and so painfully | A |
| dragging my way home at the merest crawl | B |
| impaled not only by malicious tongues | C |
| one can be wounded even by a petal | D |
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| And I myself have wounded quite unwittingly | A |
| with casual tenderness while passing by | E |
| and later someone felt the pain | F |
| it was like walking barefoot over the ice | G |
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| So why do I step upon the ruins | H |
| of those most near and dear to me | A |
| I who can be so simply and so sharply wounded | I |
| and can wound others with such deadly ease | J |
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| Translated by Arthur Boyars and Simon Franklin | K |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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