Words Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFAG HIHJKLKMNOAP AQGQRAB| He lets me listen when he moves me | A |
| Words are not like other words | B |
| He takes me from under my arms | C |
| He plants me in a distant cloud | D |
| And the black rain in my eyes | E |
| Falls in torrents torrents | F |
| He carries me with him he carries me | A |
| To an evening of perfumed balconies | G |
| - | |
| And I am like a child in his hands | H |
| Like a feather carried by the wind | I |
| He carries for me seven moons in his hands | H |
| and a bundle of songs | J |
| He gives me sun he gives me summer | K |
| and flocks of swallows | L |
| He tells me that I am his treasure | K |
| And that I am equal to thousands of stars | M |
| And that I am treasure and that I am | N |
| more beautiful than he has seen of paintings | O |
| He tells me things that make me dizzy | A |
| that make me forget the dance and the steps | P |
| - | |
| Words which overturn my history | A |
| which make me a woman in seconds | Q |
| He builds castles of fantasies | G |
| which I live in for seconds | Q |
| And I return I return to my table | R |
| Nothing with me | A |
| Nothing with me except words | B |
Nizar Qabbani
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