Letter From Under The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDAE CFGFHI JKLL MNOHGBBBPQ BRST CUUU| If you are my friend | A |
| Help me to leave you | B |
| Or if you are my lover | C |
| Help me so I can be healed of you | B |
| If I knew | B |
| that the ocean is very deep I would not have swam | D |
| If I knew how I would end | A |
| I would not have began | E |
| - | |
| I desire you so teach me not to desire | C |
| teach me | F |
| how to cut the roots of your love from the depths | G |
| teach me | F |
| how tears may die in the eyes | H |
| and love may commit suicide | I |
| - | |
| If you are prophet | J |
| Cleanse me from this spell | K |
| Deliver me from this atheism | L |
| Your love is like atheism so purify me from this atheism | L |
| - | |
| If you are strong | M |
| Rescue me from this ocean | N |
| For I don't know how to swim | O |
| The blue waves in your eyes | H |
| drag me to the depths | G |
| blue | B |
| blue | B |
| nothing but the color blue | B |
| and I have no experience | P |
| in love and no boat | Q |
| - | |
| If I am dear to you | B |
| then take my hand | R |
| For I am filled with desire from my | S |
| head to my feet | T |
| - | |
| I am breathing under water | C |
| I am drowning | U |
| drowning | U |
| drowning | U |
Nizar Qabbani
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