A Song Of Despair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DD DE FG HI JG DG JG KL DM NO PQ DR AS MD TU VW XD JY ZG MD A2R B2C2 JG JD2 E2D BF2 Z CThe memory of you emerges from the night around me | A |
The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea | A |
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Deserted like the wharves at dawn | B |
It is the hour of departure oh deserted one | C |
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Cold flower heads are raining over my heart | D |
Oh pit of debris fierce cave of the shipwrecked | D |
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In you the wars and the flights accumulated | D |
From you the wings of the song birds rose | E |
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You swallowed everything like distance | F |
Like the sea like time In you everything sank | G |
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It was the happy hour of assault and the kiss | H |
The hour of the spell that blazed like a lighthouse | I |
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Pilot's dread fury of blind driver | J |
turbulent drunkenness of love in you everything sank | G |
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In the childhood of mist my soul winged and wounded | D |
Lost discoverer in you everything sank | G |
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You girdled sorrow you clung to desire | J |
sadness stunned you in you everything sank | G |
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I made the wall of shadow draw back | K |
beyond desire and act I walked on | L |
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Oh flesh my own flesh woman whom I loved and lost | D |
I summon you in the moist hour I raise my song to you | M |
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Like a jar you housed infinite tenderness | N |
and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar | O |
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There was the black solitude of the islands | P |
and there woman of love your arms took me in | Q |
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There was thirst and hunger and you were the fruit | D |
There were grief and ruins and you were the miracle | R |
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Ah woman I do not know how you could contain me | A |
in the earth of your soul in the cross of your arms | S |
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How terrible and brief my desire was to you | M |
How difficult and drunken how tensed and avid | D |
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Cemetery of kisses there is still fire in your tombs | T |
still the fruited boughs burn pecked at by birds | U |
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Oh the bitten mouth oh the kissed limbs | V |
oh the hungering teeth oh the entwined bodies | W |
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Oh the mad coupling of hope and force | X |
in which we merged and despaired | D |
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And the tenderness light as water and as flour | J |
And the word scarcely begun on the lips | Y |
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This was my destiny and in it was my voyage of my longing | Z |
and in it my longing fell in you everything sank | G |
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Oh pit of debris everything fell into you | M |
what sorrow did you not express in what sorrow are you not drowned | D |
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From billow to billow you still called and sang | A2 |
Standing like a sailor in the prow of a vessel | R |
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You still flowered in songs you still brike the currents | B2 |
Oh pit of debris open and bitter well | C2 |
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Pale blind diver luckless slinger | J |
lost discoverer in you everything sank | G |
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It is the hour of departure the hard cold hour | J |
which the night fastens to all the timetables | D2 |
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The rustling belt of the sea girdles the shore | E2 |
Cold stars heave up black birds migrate | D |
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Deserted like the wharves at dawn | B |
Only tremulous shadow twists in my hands | F2 |
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Oh farther than everything Oh farther than everything | Z |
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It is the hour of departure Oh abandoned one | C |
Pablo Neruda
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