Pour Out Your Sorrows, My Heart (verse Xlvi) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA BCCB BDDB EFEF GHHG IBBI JBBJ KLMK NOON PPPP BQQB| Pour out your sorrows my heart | A |
| But let none discover where | B |
| For my pride makes me forbear | B |
| My heart's sorrows to impart | A |
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| I love you Verse my friend true | B |
| Because when in pieces torn | C |
| My heart's too burdened you've borne | C |
| All my sorrows upon you | B |
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| For me you suffer and bear | B |
| Upon your amorous lap | D |
| Every anguish every slap | D |
| That my painful love leaves there | B |
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| That I may love in peace with all | E |
| And do good works as my goal | F |
| You thrash your waves rise and fall | E |
| With whatever weighs my soul | F |
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| That I may cross with fierce stride | G |
| Pure and without hate this vale | H |
| You drag yourself hard and pale | H |
| The loving friend at my side | G |
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| And so my life its way will wend | I |
| To the sky serene and pure | B |
| While you my sorrows endure | B |
| And with divine patience tend | I |
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| Because I know this cruel habit | J |
| Of throwing myself on you | B |
| Upsets your harmony true | B |
| And tries your gentle spirit | J |
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| Because on your breast I've shed | K |
| All of my sorrows and torments | L |
| And have whipped your quiet currents | M |
| Which are here white and there red | K |
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| And then pale as death become | N |
| At once roaring and attacking | O |
| And then beneath the weight cracking | O |
| Of pain it can't overcome | N |
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| Should I the advice have taken | P |
| Of a heart so misbegotten | P |
| Would have me leave you forgotten | P |
| Who never me has forsaken | P |
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| Verse there's a God they aver | B |
| To whom the dying appealed | Q |
| Verse as one our fates our sealed | Q |
| We are damned or saved together | B |
Jose Marti
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