Hymn To Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHDIJKLMDF NEOHPQRSDTUDDVWDXCQD SYCHKZA2 B2C2CDGHSRD2E2Y DThe hair falling on your forehead | A |
suddenly lifted | B |
Suddenly something stirred on the ground | C |
The trees are whispering | D |
in the dark | E |
Your bare arms will be cold | F |
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Far off | G |
where we can't see | H |
the moon must be rising | D |
It hasn't reached us yet | I |
slipping through the leaves | J |
to light up your shoulder | K |
But I know | L |
a wind comes up with the moon | M |
The trees are whispering | D |
Your bare arms will be cold | F |
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From above | N |
from the branches lost in the dark | E |
something dropped at your feet | O |
You moved closer to me | H |
Under my hand your bare flesh is like the fuzzy skin of a fruit | P |
Neither a song of the heart nor common sense | Q |
before the trees birds and insects | R |
my hand on my wife's flesh | S |
is thinking | D |
Tonight my hand | T |
can't read or write | U |
Neither loving nor unloving | D |
It's the tongue of a leopard at a spring | D |
a grape leaf | V |
a wolf's paw | W |
To move breathe eat drink | D |
My hand is like a seed | X |
splitting open underground | C |
Neither a song of the heart nor common sense | Q |
neither loving nor unloving | D |
My hand thinking on my wife's flesh | S |
is the hand of the first man | Y |
Like a root that finds water underground | C |
it says to me | H |
To eat drink cold hot struggle smell color | K |
not to live in order to die | Z |
but to die to live | A2 |
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And now | B2 |
as red female hair blows across my face | C2 |
as something stirs on the ground | C |
as the trees whisper in the dark | D |
and as the moon rises far off | G |
where we can't see | H |
my hand on my wife's flesh | S |
before the trees birds and insects | R |
I want the right of life | D2 |
of the leopard at the spring of the seed splitting open | E2 |
I want the right of the first man | Y |
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Trans by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk | D |
Nazim Hikmet
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