Enigmas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST O UVWXIYII ZVVA2 JB2C2D2 I| You've asked me what the lobster is weaving there with | A |
| his golden feet | B |
| I reply the ocean knows this | C |
| You say what is the ascidia waiting for in its transparent | D |
| bell What is it waiting for | E |
| I tell you it is waiting for time like you | F |
| You ask me whom the Macrocystis alga hugs in its arms | G |
| Study study it at a certain hour in a certain sea I know | H |
| You question me about the wicked tusk of the narwhal | I |
| and I reply by describing | J |
| how the sea unicorn with the harpoon in it dies | K |
| You enquire about the kingfisher's feathers | L |
| which tremble in the pure springs of the southern tides | M |
| Or you've found in the cards a new question touching on | N |
| the crystal architecture | O |
| of the sea anemone and you'll deal that to me now | P |
| You want to understand the electric nature of the ocean | Q |
| spines | R |
| The armored stalactite that breaks as it walks | S |
| The hook of the angler fish the music stretched out | T |
| in the deep places like a thread in the water | O |
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| I want to tell you the ocean knows this that life in its | U |
| jewel boxes | V |
| is endless as the sand impossible to count pure | W |
| and among the blood colored grapes time has made the | X |
| petal | I |
| hard and shiny made the jellyfish full of light | Y |
| and untied its knot letting its musical threads fall | I |
| from a horn of plenty made of infinite mother of pearl | I |
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| I am nothing but the empty net which has gone on ahead | Z |
| of human eyes dead in those darknesses | V |
| of fingers accustomed to the triangle longitudes | V |
| on the timid globe of an orange | A2 |
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| I walked around as you do investigating | J |
| the endless star | B2 |
| and in my net during the night I woke up naked | C2 |
| the only thing caught a fish trapped inside the wind | D2 |
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| Translated by Robert Bly | I |
Pablo Neruda
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