To Pablo Neruda Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFGHI HJCK LHMJMNOP QRSTH USQVW XYZA2R CB2TC2 D2TLE2 F2E2F2E2 F2F2F2CF2F2F2G2 H2I2F2F2DJ2F2K2 E2G2E2L2 HF2F2F2F2F2| Again again | A |
| I have read your books | B |
| without ever wishing to know you | C |
| - | |
| I suck the alphabet of blood | D |
| I chew the iron filings of your words | E |
| I kiss your images like moist mouths | F |
| while the black seeds of your syllables | G |
| fly fly fly | H |
| into my lungs | I |
| - | |
| Untranslated untranslatable | H |
| you are rooted inside me | J |
| not you but the you | C |
| of your poems | K |
| - | |
| the man of his word | L |
| the lover who digs into the alien soil | H |
| of one North American woman | M |
| plants a baby | J |
| love child of Whitman | M |
| crossed with the Spanish language | N |
| embryo sapling half breed | O |
| of my tongue | P |
| - | |
| I saw you once | Q |
| your flesh | R |
| at Columbia | S |
| My alma mater | T |
| you the visiting soul | H |
| - | |
| Buddha like | U |
| you sat before a Buddha | S |
| the audience | Q |
| craned its neck | V |
| to take you in | W |
| - | |
| Freak show | X |
| visiting poet | Y |
| You sat clothed | Z |
| in your thick | A2 |
| imperious flesh | R |
| - | |
| I wanted to comfort you | C |
| not to stare | B2 |
| Our words knew each other | T |
| That was enough | C2 |
| - | |
| Now you are dead | D2 |
| of fascism cancer | T |
| your books scattered | L |
| the oil cruet on the floor | E2 |
| - | |
| The sea surges through your house | F2 |
| at Isla Negra | E2 |
| the jackboots | F2 |
| walk on water | E2 |
| - | |
| Poet of cats grapefruits | F2 |
| of elephant saints | F2 |
| poet of broken dishes | F2 |
| Machu Picchu | C |
| poet of panthers | F2 |
| pantheresses | F2 |
| poet of lemons | F2 |
| poet of lemony light | G2 |
| - | |
| The flies swarm | H2 |
| thicker than print on a page | I2 |
| poetry blackens | F2 |
| like overripe bananas | F2 |
| The fascists you hated | D |
| the communists you loved | J2 |
| obscure the light the lemons | F2 |
| with their buzzing | K2 |
| - | |
| We were together | E2 |
| on the side of light | G2 |
| We walked together | E2 |
| though we never met | L2 |
| - | |
| The eyes are not political | H |
| nor the tastebuds | F2 |
| the flesh tastes salty always | F2 |
| like the sea | F2 |
| the sea | F2 |
| turns back the flies | F2 |
Erica Jong
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