Some Day I'll Visit Longingly (verse Iv) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DAAD EFFE GHHG IHH HJK ILL MEEM HNOH| Someday I'll visit longingly | A |
| All the places where unseen | B |
| My lover and I have been | C |
| Playing with waves by the sea | A |
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| The two of us were alone | D |
| Except for the company | A |
| Of twain birds that we could see | A |
| Had to the dark cavern flown | D |
| - | |
| On the pair as light as air | E |
| Her eyes rivetted would stay | F |
| While she the red iris spray | F |
| The gardener gave her would tear | E |
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| The sweet honeysuckle rose | G |
| Her hands gathered from the dell | H |
| And lovely touch me nots as well | H |
| Where the starlike jasmine grows | G |
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| I the gallant beau begun | I |
| To open her parasol | H |
| And she said 'Don't think me droll | H |
| If I'd rather see the sun '' | - |
| - | |
| 'I've never seen sphires as tall | H |
| As the noble oaks appear | J |
| Surely the Christ must be here | K |
| Because here is his cathedral '' | - |
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| 'For my daughter's first communion | I |
| I know now the place that's best | L |
| All in white she will be dressed | L |
| With a hat curved like a pinion ' | - |
| - | |
| When on the path we'd set out | M |
| The heat was too much to bear | E |
| My lover and I kissed there | E |
| Whenever a trill let out | M |
| - | |
| As one who can no longer feel | H |
| The quiet frozen lake I'll tour | N |
| There I'll lay down the stilled oar | O |
| And there shall bury the sad keel | H |
Jose Marti
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