If You Forget Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEAFGHIJKLMNO POQ OOOJ RSTUVWGXGYZA2 B2XGOC2GOD2E2F2G2YH2I want you to know | A |
one thing | B |
- | |
You know how this is | C |
if I look | D |
at the crystal moon at the red branch | E |
of the slow autumn at my window | A |
if I touch | F |
near the fire | G |
the impalpable ash | H |
or the wrinkled body of the log | I |
everything carries me to you | J |
as if everything that exists | K |
aromas light metals | L |
were little boats | M |
that sail | N |
toward those isles of yours that wait for me | O |
- | |
Well now | P |
if little by little you stop loving me | O |
I shall stop loving you little by little | Q |
- | |
If suddenly | O |
you forget me | O |
do not look for me | O |
for I shall already have forgotten you | J |
- | |
If you think it long and mad | R |
the wind of banners | S |
that passes through my life | T |
and you decide | U |
to leave me at the shore | V |
of the heart where I have roots | W |
remember | G |
that on that day | X |
at that hour | G |
I shall lift my arms | Y |
and my roots will set off | Z |
to seek another land | A2 |
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But | B2 |
if each day | X |
each hour | G |
you feel that you are destined for me | O |
with implacable sweetness | C2 |
if each day a flower | G |
climbs up to your lips to seek me | O |
ah my love ah my own | D2 |
in me all that fire is repeated | E2 |
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten | F2 |
my love feeds on your love beloved | G2 |
and as long as you live it will be in your arms | Y |
without leaving mine | H2 |
Pablo Neruda
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