City That Does Not Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDF GAHIGJK LMNIOIIEI PIIDI PNIQLRSTUIVVVE GVIWIESX VDYYIasleep | A |
The creatures of the moon sniff and prowl about their cabins | B |
The living iguanas will come and bite the men who do not dream | C |
and the man who rushes out with his spirit broken will meet on the | D |
street corner | E |
the unbelievable alligator quiet beneath the tender protest of the | D |
stars | F |
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Nobody is asleep on earth Nobody nobody | G |
Nobody is asleep | A |
In a graveyard far off there is a corpse | H |
who has moaned for three years | I |
because of a dry countryside on his knee | G |
and that boy they buried this morning cried so much | J |
it was necessary to call out the dogs to keep him quiet | K |
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Life is not a dream Careful Careful Careful | L |
We fall down the stairs in order to eat the moist earth | M |
or we climb to the knife edge of the snow with the voices of the dead | N |
dahlias | I |
But forgetfulness does not exist dreams do not exist | O |
flesh exists Kisses tie our mouths | I |
in a thicket of new veins | I |
and whoever his pain pains will feel that pain forever | E |
and whoever is afraid of death will carry it on his shoulders | I |
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One day | P |
the horses will live in the saloons | I |
and the enraged ants | I |
will throw themselves on the yellow skies that take refuge in the | D |
eyes of cows | I |
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Another day | P |
we will watch the preserved butterflies rise from the dead | N |
and still walking through a country of gray sponges and silent boats | I |
we will watch our ring flash and roses spring from our tongue | Q |
Careful Be careful Be careful | L |
The men who still have marks of the claw and the thunderstorm | R |
and that boy who cries because he has never heard of the invention | S |
of the bridge | T |
or that dead man who possesses now only his head and a shoe | U |
we must carry them to the wall where the iguanas and the snakes | I |
are waiting | V |
where the bear's teeth are waiting | V |
where the mummified hand of the boy is waiting | V |
and the hair of the camel stands on end with a violent blue shudder | E |
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Nobody is sleeping in the sky Nobody nobody | G |
Nobody is sleeping | V |
If someone does close his eyes | I |
a whip boys a whip | W |
Let there be a landscape of open eyes | I |
and bitter wounds on fire | E |
No one is sleeping in this world No one no one | S |
I have said it before | X |
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No one is sleeping | V |
But if someone grows too much moss on his temples during the | D |
night | Y |
open the stage trapdoors so he can see in the moonlight | Y |
the lying goblets and the poison and the skull of the theaters | I |
Federico Garca-a Lorca
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