There are quite a few oddities in issue No. 9 of 1830 of Delvig's "Literary Gazette"
There are quite a few oddities in issue No. 9 of 1830 of Delvig's "Literary Gazette". Take, for example, the rhyme in Pushkin's epistle to Yazykov of 1824:
"Since time immemorial a sweet bond
Unites poets with one another:
They are priests of the one set of muses;
One single flame stirs them;
Strangers to one another by fate,
They are kin by inspiration.
I swear by Ovid's shade:
Yazykov, I am close to you.
Long ago I would have set out on the Dorpat road
At morning's hour
And carried my heavy staff
To your welcoming threshold,
And returned enlivened
By the picture of carefree days,
By free and inspired conversation
And your resonant lyre.
But fortune plays with me spitefully:
Long have I drifted without a roof,
Wherever the bad weather blows;
Having fallen asleep, I do not know where I shall wake. —
Always hounded, now in exile
I drag out my shackled days.
Hear, poet, my calling,
Do not deceive my hopes. ...".
Literal translation
No, "fortune" does not rhyme with "bad weather". So what is the matter?
The matter is that the censor struck the word "autocracy" out of Pushkin's poem, and the poet deliberately wrote in "bad weather", out of place, so that there could be no doubt that the lines would nevertheless be read correctly.
