Selected Poetry (Penguin) by Alexander Pushkin

Author:Alexander Pushkin [Pushkin, Alexander]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241207154
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2020-03-10T00:00:00+00:00

I

How bored I am with the tetrameter,

Used by everyone, every schoolboy rhymer.

I’ve long been drawn to the pentameter,

And thinking I would try ottava rima.

I’m confident, I’m not an amateur,

In triple harmony I need no primer;

I see a rhyme in almost every word,

Two come at once – they bring along a third.

II

To free a way to them I’ll rhyme on verbs;

10That more than anything will ease my task …

I know we have been taught to be averse

To rhyming verbal endings. Why, I ask?

Even the monk Shikhmatov wrote no worse

For using verbal rhymes. I wear no mask –

I use these rhymes myself … Our tongue is bare,

We need them all the time. I’ll leave it there.

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