I Have No Power Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFGHGGIJ AAKLAKKCM KKKLNGG OKCKPCLG GAAQRCSTGUCCKV| 'I have no power to change you | A |
| or explain your ways | B |
| Never believe a man can change a woman | C |
| Those men are pretenders | D |
| who think | E |
| that they created woman | C |
| from one of their ribs | F |
| Woman does not emerge from a man's rib's not ever | G |
| it's he who emerges from her womb | H |
| like a fish rising from depths of water | G |
| and like streams that branch away from a river | G |
| It's he who circles the sun of her eyes | I |
| and imagines he is fixed in place | J |
| - | |
| I have no power to tame you | A |
| or domesticate you | A |
| or mitigate your first instincts | K |
| This task is impossible | L |
| I've tested my intelligence on you | A |
| also my dumbness | K |
| Nothing worked with you neither guidance | K |
| nor temptation | C |
| Stay primitive as you are | M |
| - | |
| I have no power to break your habits | K |
| for thirty years you have been like this | K |
| for three hundred years | K |
| a storm trapping in a bottle | L |
| a body by nature sensing the scent of a man | N |
| assaults it by nature | G |
| triumphs over it by nature | G |
| - | |
| Never believe what a man says about himself | O |
| that he is the one who makes the poems | K |
| and makes the children | C |
| It is the woman who writes the poems | K |
| and the man who signs his name to them | P |
| It is the woman who bears the children | C |
| and the man who signs at the maternity hospital | L |
| that he is the father | G |
| - | |
| I have no power to change your nature | G |
| my books are of no use to you | A |
| and my convictions do not convince you | A |
| nor does my fatherly council do you any good | Q |
| you are the queen of anarchy of madness of belonging | R |
| to no one | C |
| Stay that way | S |
| You are the tree of femininity that grows in the dark | T |
| needs no sun or water | G |
| you the sea princess who has loved all men | U |
| and loved no one | C |
| slept with all men and slept with no one | C |
| you are the Bedouin woman who went with all the tribes | K |
| and returned a virgin | V |
| Stay that way ' | - |
Nizar Qabbani
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