The Old Lizard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFDGHGIJKL MFNBOPAGQKR SRTUVWUU RXUUUYZU DBULUUA2B2RUFPUUC2D2 E2UULF2AUG2UPG UUMB YH2I2A2UUIn the parched path | A |
I have seen the good lizard | B |
one dropp of crocodile | C |
meditating | D |
With his green frock coat | E |
of an abbot of the devil | F |
his correct bearing | D |
and his stiff collar | G |
he has the sad air | H |
of an old professor | G |
Those faded eyes | I |
of a broken artist | J |
how they watch the afternoon | K |
in dismay | L |
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Is this my friend | M |
your twilight constitutional | F |
Please use your cane | N |
you are very old Mr Lizard | B |
and the children of the village | O |
may startle you | P |
What are you seeking in the path | A |
my near sighted philosopher | G |
if the wavering phantasm | Q |
of the parched afternoon | K |
has broken the horizon | R |
- | |
Are you seeking the blue alms | S |
of the moribund heaven | R |
A penny of a star | T |
Or perhaps | U |
you've been reading a volume | V |
of Lamartine and you relish | W |
the plateresque trills | U |
of the birds | U |
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You watch the setting sun | R |
and your eyes shine | X |
oh dragon of the frogs | U |
with a human radiance | U |
Ideas gondolas without oars | U |
cross the shadowy | Y |
waters of your | Z |
burnt out eyes | U |
- | |
Have you come looking | D |
for that lovely lady lizard | B |
green as the wheatfields | U |
of May | L |
as the long locks | U |
of sleeping pools | U |
who scorned you and then | A2 |
left you in your field | B2 |
Oh sweet idyll broken | R |
among the sweet sedges | U |
But live What the devil | F |
I like you | P |
The motto 'I oppose | U |
the serpent' triumphs | U |
in that grand double chin | C2 |
of a Christian archbishop | D2 |
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Now the sun has dissolved | E2 |
in the cup of the mountains | U |
and the flocks | U |
cloud the roadway | L |
It is the hour to depart | F2 |
leave the dry path | A |
and your meditations | U |
You will have time | G2 |
to look at the stars | U |
when the worms are eating you | P |
at their leisure | G |
- | |
- | |
Go home to your house | U |
by the village of the crickets | U |
Good night my friend | M |
Mr Lizard | B |
- | |
Now the field is empty | Y |
the mountains dim | H2 |
the roadway deserted | I2 |
Only now and again | A2 |
a cuckoo sings in the darkness | U |
of the poplar trees | U |
Federico Garca-a Lorca
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