As One Listens To The Rain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHDIAJKLMNOPQA EJRSTEUVAWTUXUVDVAYZ A2B2DC2VD2VE2F2| Listen to me as one listens to the rain | A |
| not attentive not distracted | B |
| light footsteps thin drizzle | C |
| water that is air air that is time | D |
| the day is still leaving | E |
| the night has yet to arrive | F |
| figurations of mist | G |
| at the turn of the corner | H |
| figurations of time | D |
| at the bend in this pause | I |
| listen to me as one listens to the rain | A |
| without listening hear what I say | J |
| with eyes open inward asleep | K |
| with all five senses awake | L |
| it's raining light footsteps a murmur of syllables | M |
| air and water words with no weight | N |
| what we are and are | O |
| the days and years this moment | P |
| weightless time and heavy sorrow | Q |
| listen to me as one listens to the rain | A |
| wet asphalt is shining | E |
| steam rises and walks away | J |
| night unfolds and looks at me | R |
| you are you and your body of steam | S |
| you and your face of night | T |
| you and your hair unhurried lightning | E |
| you cross the street and enter my forehead | U |
| footsteps of water across my eyes | V |
| listen to me as one listens to the rain | A |
| the asphalt's shining you cross the street | W |
| it is the mist wandering in the night | T |
| it is the night asleep in your bed | U |
| it is the surge of waves in your breath | X |
| your fingers of water dampen my forehead | U |
| your fingers of flame burn my eyes | V |
| your fingers of air open eyelids of time | D |
| a spring of visions and resurrections | V |
| listen to me as one listens to the rain | A |
| the years go by the moments return | Y |
| do you hear the footsteps in the next room | Z |
| not here not there you hear them | A2 |
| in another time that is now | B2 |
| listen to the footsteps of time | D |
| inventor of places with no weight nowhere | C2 |
| listen to the rain running over the terrace | V |
| the night is now more night in the grove | D2 |
| lightning has nestled among the leaves | V |
| a restless garden adrift go in | E2 |
| your shadow covers this page | F2 |
Octavio Paz
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