Canto Xii From The Heights Of Macchu Picchu Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEC FGCHCCCCICJKFLMNCCCO C FPNQ RSTCCCCC U C N V O| Arise to birth with me my brother | A |
| Give me your hand out of the depths | B |
| sown by your sorrows | C |
| You will not return from these stone fastnesses | C |
| You will not emerge from subterranean time | D |
| Your rasping voice will not come back | E |
| nor your pierced eyes rise from their sockets | C |
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| Look at me from the depths of the earth | F |
| tiller of fields weaver reticent shepherd | G |
| groom of totemic guanacos | C |
| mason high on your treacherous scaffolding | H |
| iceman of Andean tears | C |
| jeweler with crushed fingers | C |
| farmer anxious among his seedlings | C |
| potter wasted among his clays | C |
| bring to the cup of this new life | I |
| your ancient buried sorrows | C |
| Show me your blood and your furrow | J |
| say to me here I was scourged | K |
| because a gem was dull or because the earth | F |
| failed to give up in time its tithe of corn or stone | L |
| Point out to me the rock on which you stumbled | M |
| the wood they used to crucify your body | N |
| Strike the old flints | C |
| to kindle ancient lamps light up the whips | C |
| glued to your wounds throughout the centuries | C |
| and light the axes gleaming with your blood | O |
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| I come to speak for your dead mouths | C |
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| Throughout the earth | F |
| let dead lips congregate | P |
| out of the depths spin this long night to me | N |
| as if I rode at anchor here with you | Q |
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| And tell me everything tell chain by chain | R |
| and link by link and step by step | S |
| sharpen the knives you kept hidden away | T |
| thrust them into my breast into my hands | C |
| like a torrent of sunbursts | C |
| an Amazon of buried jaguars | C |
| and leave me cry hours days and years | C |
| blind ages stellar centuries | C |
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| And give me silence give me water hope | U |
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| Give me the struggle the iron the volcanoes | C |
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| Let bodies cling like magnets to my body | N |
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| Come quickly to my veins and to my mouth | V |
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| Speak through my speech and through my blood | O |
Pablo Neruda
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Canto Xii From The Heights Of Macchu Picchu is a poem by Pablo Neruda. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.