When I Love You Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI JKLMNOAPQRSS| When I love you | A |
| A new language springs up | B |
| New cities new countries discovered | C |
| The hours breathe like puppies | D |
| Wheat grows between the pages of books | E |
| Birds fly from your eyes with tiding of honey | F |
| Caravans ride from your breasts carrying Indian herbs | G |
| The mangoes fall all around the forests catch fire | H |
| And Nubian drums beat | I |
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| When I love you your breasts shake off their shame | J |
| Turn into lightning and thunder a sword a sandy storm | K |
| When I love you the Arab cities leap up and demonstrate | L |
| Against the ages of repression | M |
| And the ages | N |
| Of revenge against the laws of the tribe | O |
| And I when I love you | A |
| March against ugliness | P |
| Against the kings of salt | Q |
| Against the institutionalization of the desert | R |
| And I shall continue to love you until the world flood arrives | S |
| I shall continue to love you untill the world flood arrives | S |
Nizar Qabbani
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