The Child Scribbles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLM FNGNJONP QRSE| My fault my greatest fault | A |
| O sea eyed princess | B |
| was to love you | C |
| as a child loves | D |
| The greatest lovers | E |
| after all are children | F |
| My first mistake | G |
| and not my last | H |
| was to live | I |
| in the taste of wonder | J |
| ready to be amazed | K |
| by the simple span | L |
| of night and day | M |
| - | |
| and ready for every woman | F |
| I loved to break me | N |
| into a thousand pieces to make | G |
| me an open city | N |
| and to leave me behind her | J |
| as dust | O |
| My weakness was to see | N |
| the world with the logic of a child | P |
| - | |
| And my mistake was dragging | Q |
| love out of its cave into the open air | R |
| making my breast | S |
| an open church for all lovers | E |
Nizar Qabbani
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