The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMBNOPPQM IRSTC U| How astonishing it is that language can almost mean | A |
| and frightening that it does not quite Love we say | B |
| God we say Rome and Michiko we write and the words | C |
| get it all wrong We say bread and it means according | D |
| to which nation French has no word for home | E |
| and we have no word for strict pleasure A people | F |
| in northern India is dying out because their ancient | G |
| tongue has no words for endearment I dream of lost | H |
| vocabularies that might express some of what | I |
| we no longer can Maybe the Etruscan texts would | J |
| finally explain why the couples on their tombs | K |
| are smiling And maybe not When the thousands | L |
| of mysterious Sumerian tablets were translated | M |
| they seemed to be business records But what if they | B |
| are poems or psalms My joy is the same as twelve | N |
| Ethiopian goats standing silent in the morning light | O |
| O Lord thou art slabs of salt and ingots of copper | P |
| as grand as ripe barley lithe under the wind's labor | P |
| Her breasts are six white oxen loaded with bolts | Q |
| of long fibered Egyptian cotton My love is a hundred | M |
| pitchers of honey Shiploads of thuya are what | I |
| my body wants to say to your body Giraffes are this | R |
| desire in the dark Perhaps the spiral Minoan script | S |
| is not laguage but a map What we feel most has | T |
| no name but amber archers cinnamon horses and birds | C |
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| Anonymous submission | U |
Jack Gilbert
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