Two African Breasts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEFFABCAGGFHACFF AFFF FIFJFAFFKFFC CLGFHMJCNCFFFF OPF CFJ ONJJJQCF RSTFSUFVBCIFFSILet me find time | A |
to welcome in this love | B |
that comes unbid | C |
Let me find time | A |
to memorize | D |
this face that rises | E |
out of the trees | F |
of forgetfulness | F |
Give me the time | A |
to escape this love | B |
that stops my blood | C |
Let me find time | A |
to recognize your name | G |
my name | G |
and the place | F |
where I was born | H |
Let me find time | A |
to know where I shall die | C |
and how I will revive as | F |
a bird inside your eyes | F |
Let me find time | A |
to study the state of winds | F |
and waves to learn the maps | F |
of bays | F |
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Woman who lodges | F |
inside the future | I |
pepper and pomegranate seeds | F |
give me a country | J |
to make me forget all countries | F |
and give me time | A |
to avoid this Andalusian face | F |
this Andalusian voice | F |
this Andalusian death | K |
coming from all directions | F |
Let me find time to prophesy | F |
the coming of the flood | C |
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Woman who was inscribed | C |
in books of magic | L |
before you came | G |
the world was prose | F |
Now poetry is born | H |
Give me the time to catch | M |
the colt that runs toward me | J |
your breast | C |
The dot over a line | N |
A bedouin breast sweet | C |
as cardamom seeds | F |
as coffee brewing over embers | F |
its form ancient as Damascene brass | F |
as Egyptian temples | F |
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Let me find luck | O |
to pick the fish that swim | P |
under the waters | F |
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Your feet on the carpet | C |
are the shape and stance | F |
of poetry | J |
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Let me find the luck | O |
to know the dividing line | N |
between the certainty | J |
of love and heresy | J |
Give me the opportunity | J |
to be convinced I have seen | Q |
the star and have been spoken to | C |
by saints | F |
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Woman whose thighs are like | R |
the desert palm where golden | S |
dates fall from | T |
your breasts speak seven tongues | F |
and I was made to listen | S |
to them all | U |
Give me the chance | F |
to avoid this storm | V |
this sweeping love | B |
this wintry air and to be convinced | C |
to blaspheme and to enter | I |
the flesh of things | F |
Give me the chance | F |
to be the one | S |
to walk on water | I |
Nizar Qabbani
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