City That Does Not Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDF GAHIGJK LMNIOIIEI PIIDI PNIQLRSTUIVVVE GVIWIESX VDYYI| asleep | 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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