From The Heights Of Maccho Picchu Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFF GHIJKLMNOPCQGEARSTUV WXYZRA2B2C2D2E2F2G2F 2 H2 P I2 W V| Rise up to be born with me brother | A |
| Give me your hand from the deep | B |
| Zone seeded by your sorrow | C |
| You won t return from under the rocks | D |
| You won t return from your subterranean time | E |
| Your hardened voice won t return | F |
| Your gouged out eyes won t return | F |
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| Look at me from the depth of the earth | G |
| laborer weaver silent shepherd | H |
| tamer of wild llamas like spirit images | I |
| construction worker on a daring scaffold | J |
| waterer of the tears of the Andes | K |
| jeweler with broken fingers | L |
| farmer trembling as you sow | M |
| potter poured out into your clay | N |
| bring to the cup of this new life | O |
| your old buried sorrows | P |
| Show me your blood and your furrow | C |
| Tell me Here I was punished | Q |
| Because the jewel didn t shine or the earth | G |
| Didn t yield grain or stones on time | E |
| Show me the stone you fell over | A |
| And the wood on which they crucified you | R |
| Make a spark from the old flints for me | S |
| For the old lamps to show the whips still stuck | T |
| After centuries in the old wounds | U |
| And the axes shining with blood | V |
| I come to speak for your dead mouth | W |
| Across the earth come together all | X |
| The silent worn out lips | Y |
| And from the depth speak to me all this long night | Z |
| Like I was pinned down there with you | R |
| Tell me all chain by chain | A2 |
| Link by link and step by step | B2 |
| Sharpen the knives which you hid | C2 |
| Put them in my breast and in my hand | D2 |
| Like a river of yellow lighting | E2 |
| Like a river of buried jaguars | F2 |
| And let me weep hours days years | G2 |
| For blind ages cycles of stars | F2 |
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| Give me silence water hope | H2 |
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| Give me struggle iron volcanoes | P |
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| Stick bodies to me like magnets | I2 |
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| Draw near to my veins and my mouth | W |
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| Speak through my words and my blood | V |
Pablo Neruda
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From The Heights Of Maccho Picchu is a poem by Pablo Neruda. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.