Raise Me More Love... Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAAEFGABHIJKJEEJL MNAAOPAAJQRAAAASJTUV AWMAXYABJZP| raise me more love raise me | A |
| my prettiest fits of madness | B |
| O dagger s journey in my flesh | C |
| and knife s plunge | D |
| sink me further my lady | A |
| the sea calls me | A |
| add to me more death | E |
| perhaps as death slays me I m revived | F |
| your body is my map | G |
| the world's map no longer concerns me | A |
| I am the oldest capital of sadness | B |
| and my wound a Pharaonic engraving | H |
| my pain extends like an oil patch | I |
| from Beirut to China | J |
| my pain a caravan dispatched | K |
| by the Caliphs of 'A Chaam' to China | J |
| in the seventh century of the 'Birth' | E |
| and lost in a dragon s mouth | E |
| bird of my heart 'naysani' | J |
| O sand of the sea and forests of olives | L |
| O taste of snow and taste of fire | M |
| my heathen flavor and insight | N |
| I feel scared of the unknown shelter me | A |
| I feel scared of the darkness embrace me | A |
| I feel cold cover me up | O |
| tell me children stories | P |
| rest beside me | A |
| Chant to me | A |
| since from the start of creation | J |
| I ve been searching for a homeland to my forehead | Q |
| for a woman s hair | R |
| that writes me on the walls then erases me | A |
| for a woman s love to take me | A |
| to the borders of the sun and throws me | A |
| from a woman s lip as she makes me | A |
| like dust of powdered gold | S |
| shine of my life my fan | J |
| my lantern declaration of my orchards | T |
| stretch me a bridge with the scent of oranges | U |
| and place me like an ivory comb | V |
| in the darkness of your hair then forget me | A |
| I am a drop of water ambivalent | W |
| remaining in the notebook of October | M |
| your love crushes me | A |
| like a mad horse from the Caucasus throwing me under its hoofs | X |
| and gargles with the water of my eyes | Y |
| add to me more fury add to me | A |
| O prettiest fits of my madness | B |
| for your sake I set free my women | J |
| and effaced my birth certificate | Z |
| and cut all my arteries | P |
Nizar Qabbani
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