I Like You Calm, As If You Were Absent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEECFACBGGCABAAAH IABCDAACAACBGGCABAAA HI like you calm as if you were absent | A |
and you hear me far off and my voice does not touch you | B |
It seems that your eyelids have taken to flying | C |
it seems that a kiss has sealed up your mouth | D |
Since all these things are filled with my spirit | E |
you come from things filled with my spirit | E |
You appear as my soul as the butterfly s dreaming | C |
and you appear as Sadness s word | F |
I like you calm as if you were distant | A |
you are a moaning a butterfly s cooing | C |
You hear me far off my voice does not reach you | B |
Let me be calmed then calmed by your silence | G |
Let me commune then commune with your silence | G |
clear as a light and pure as a ring | C |
You are like night calmed constellated | A |
Your silence is star like as distant as true | B |
I like you calm as if you were absent | A |
distant and saddened as if you were dead | A |
One word at that moment a smile is sufficient | A |
And I thrill then I thrill that it cannot be so | H |
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I like you calm as if you were absent | A |
and you hear me far off and my voice does not touch you | B |
It seems that your eyelids have taken to flying | C |
it seems that a kiss has sealed up your mouth | D |
Since all these things are filled with my spirit | A |
you come from things filled with my spirit | A |
You appear as my soul as the butterfly s dreaming | C |
and you appear as Sadness s word | A |
I like you calm as if you were distant | A |
you are a moaning a butterfly s cooing | C |
You hear me far off my voice does not reach you | B |
Let me be calmed then calmed by your silence | G |
Let me commune then commune with your silence | G |
clear as a light and pure as a ring | C |
You are like night calmed constellated | A |
Your silence is star like as distant as true | B |
I like you calm as if you were absent | A |
distant and saddened as if you were dead | A |
One word at that moment a smile is sufficient | A |
And I thrill then I thrill that it cannot be so | H |
Pablo Neruda
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