Two African Breasts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEFFABCAGGFHACFF AFFF FIFJFAFFKFFC CLGFHMJCNCFFFF OPF CFJ ONJJJQCF RSTFSUFVBCIFFSI| Let 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| Let me find luck | O |
| to pick the fish that swim | P |
| under the waters | F |
| - | |
| Your feet on the carpet | C |
| are the shape and stance | F |
| of poetry | J |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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