Between Us Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GEHIJKLMNO JJJO IPQK RKSPQTAA LUVHKK WJXWYRZA2O KB2DC2 JRD2E2QF2G2 H2RI2RKJ2E2E2KK2K2L2 UZZ KM2N2N2JR O2P2NQ2R2ZJBetween us | A |
twenty years of age | B |
between your lips and my lips | C |
when they meet and stay | D |
the years collapse | E |
the glass of a whole life shatters | F |
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The day I met you I tore up | G |
all my maps | E |
an my prophecies | H |
like an Arab stallion I smelled the rain | I |
of you | J |
before it wet me | K |
heard the pulse of your voice | L |
before you spoke | M |
undid your hair with my hands | N |
before you had braided it | O |
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There is nothing I can do | J |
nothing you can do | J |
what can the wound do | J |
with the knife on the way to it | O |
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Your eyes are like a night of rain | I |
in which ships are sinking | P |
and all I wrote is forgotten | Q |
In mirrors there is no memory | K |
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God how is it that we surrender | R |
to love giving it the keys to our city | K |
carrying candles to it and incense | S |
falling down at its feet asking | P |
to be forgiven | Q |
Why do we look for it and endure | T |
all that it does to us | A |
all that it does to us | A |
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Woman in whose voice | L |
silver and wine mingle | U |
in the rains | V |
From the mirrors of your knees | H |
the day begins its journey | K |
life puts out to sea | K |
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I knew when I said | W |
I love you | J |
that I was inventing a new alphabet | X |
for a city where no one could read | W |
that I was saying my poems | Y |
in an empty theater | R |
and pouring my wine | Z |
for those who could not | A2 |
taste it | O |
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When God gave you to me | K |
I felt that He had loaded | B2 |
everything my way | D |
and unsaid all His sacred books | C2 |
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Who are you | J |
woman entering my life like a dagger | R |
mild as the eyes of a rabbit | D2 |
soft as the skin of a plum | E2 |
pure as strings of jasmine | Q |
innocent as children's bibs | F2 |
and devouring like words | G2 |
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Your love threw me down | H2 |
in a land of wonder | R |
it ambushed me like the scent | I2 |
of a woman stepping into an elevator | R |
it surprised me | K |
in a coffee bar | J2 |
sitting over a poem | E2 |
I forgot the poem | E2 |
It surprised me | K |
reading the lines in my palm | K2 |
I forgot my palm | K2 |
It dropped on me like a blind deaf | L2 |
wildfowl | U |
its feathers became tangled with mine | Z |
its cries were twisted with mine | Z |
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It surprised me | K |
as I sat on my suitcase | M2 |
waiting for the train of days | N2 |
I forgot the days | N2 |
I traveled with you | J |
to the land of wonder | R |
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Your image is engraved | O2 |
on the face of my watch | P2 |
It is engraved on each of the hands | N |
It is etched on the weeks | Q2 |
months years | R2 |
My time is no longer mine | Z |
it is you | J |
Nizar Qabbani
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