Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACDEAF GHIJKL MNOGPQHRLSFRTT| What's wrong with you with us | A |
| what's happening to us | A |
| Ah our love is a harsh cord | B |
| that binds us wounding us | A |
| and if we want | C |
| to leave our wound | D |
| to separate | E |
| it makes a new knot for us and condemns us | A |
| to drain our blood and burn together | F |
| - | |
| What's wrong with you I look at you | G |
| and I find nothing in you but two eyes | H |
| like all eyes a mouth | I |
| lost among a thousand mouths that I have kissed more beautiful | J |
| a body just like those that have slipped | K |
| beneath my body without leaving any memory | L |
| - | |
| And how empty you went through the world | M |
| like a wheat colored jar | N |
| without air without sound without substance | O |
| I vainly sought in you | G |
| depth for my arms | P |
| that dig without cease beneath the earth | Q |
| beneath your skin beneath your eyes | H |
| nothing | R |
| beneath your double breast scarcely | L |
| raised | S |
| a current of crystalline order | F |
| that does not know why it flows singing | R |
| Why why why | T |
| my love why | T |
Pablo Neruda
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Love is a poem by Pablo Neruda. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.