A Lemon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCCECCFG CHCIJKCDCCLCCCCMNKOP KQDRCCCCC SKTUCCVECDWXY| Out of lemon flowers | A |
| loosed | B |
| on the moonlight love's | C |
| lashed and insatiable | D |
| essences | C |
| sodden with fragrance | C |
| the lemon tree's yellow | E |
| emerges | C |
| the lemons | C |
| move down | F |
| from the tree's planetarium | G |
| - | |
| Delicate merchandise | C |
| The harbors are big with it | H |
| bazaars | C |
| for the light and the | I |
| barbarous gold | J |
| We open | K |
| the halves | C |
| of a miracle | D |
| and a clotting of acids | C |
| brims | C |
| into the starry | L |
| divisions | C |
| creation's | C |
| original juices | C |
| irreducible changeless | C |
| alive | M |
| so the freshness lives on | N |
| in a lemon | K |
| in the sweet smelling house of the rind | O |
| the proportions arcane and acerb | P |
| - | |
| Cutting the lemon | K |
| the knife | Q |
| leaves a little cathedral | D |
| alcoves unguessed by the eye | R |
| that open acidulous glass | C |
| to the light topazes | C |
| riding the droplets | C |
| altars | C |
| aromatic facades | C |
| - | |
| So while the hand | S |
| holds the cut of the lemon | K |
| half a world | T |
| on a trencher | U |
| the gold of the universe | C |
| wells | C |
| to your touch | V |
| a cup yellow | E |
| with miracles | C |
| a breast and a nipple | D |
| perfuming the earth | W |
| a flashing made fruitage | X |
| the diminutive fire of a planet | Y |
Pablo Neruda
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About A Lemon
A Lemon is a poem by Pablo Neruda. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.