School Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFGHIGGJKL JJMNOPQRSTLJUVWAABCD| Your love taught me how to grieve | A |
| And for centuries I needed a woman to make me grieve | A |
| I needed a woman | B |
| To make me cry on her shoulders like a bird | C |
| I needed a woman to collect my pieces like broken glass | D |
| Oh my lady your love taught me the worst of my habits | E |
| It taught me how to drink coffee a thousand times every night | F |
| It taught me how to visit doctors and ask soothsayers | G |
| It taught me to go out to scan the streets | H |
| To seek your face in the rain and in the lights | I |
| To chase your shadow in the faces of strangers | G |
| To hunt your aura even in the newspapers | G |
| Your love showed me the sadness city | J |
| Which I have never entered ere you | K |
| I have never known that the tear is humane | L |
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| And the human without tears is just a memory | J |
| Your love taught me | J |
| How to draw your face on the walls with chalk like kids | M |
| It taught me how love can change the map of times | N |
| It taught me that when I love | O |
| The earth stands still | P |
| Your love showed me what hallucination is | Q |
| It taught me how to love you in every little thing | R |
| In the bare autumn trees | S |
| In the falling yellow leafs | T |
| In the rain | L |
| In every cafeteria in which we drank our black coffee | J |
| My lady your love taught me to sleep in nameless hotels | U |
| And to sit by nameless shores | V |
| It taught me to weep without tears | W |
| Your love taught me how to grieve | A |
| And for centuries I needed a woman to make me grieve | A |
| I needed a woman | B |
| To make me cry on her shoulders like a bird | C |
| I needed a woman to collect my pieces like broken glass | D |
Nizar Qabbani
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