Magellanic Penguin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFBFGEH FCCCCCCFEIFF FFFBHBFCG EFFFNeither clown nor child nor black | A |
nor white but verticle | B |
and a questioning innocence | C |
dressed in night and snow | D |
The mother smiles at the sailor | E |
the fisherman at the astronaunt | F |
but the child child does not smile | B |
when he looks at the bird child | F |
and from the disorderly ocean | G |
the immaculate passenger | E |
emerges in snowy mourning | H |
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I was without doubt the child bird | F |
there in the cold archipelagoes | C |
when it looked at me with its eyes | C |
with its ancient ocean eyes | C |
it had neither arms nor wings | C |
but hard little oars | C |
on its sides | C |
it was as old as the salt | F |
the age of moving water | E |
and it looked at me from its age | I |
since then I know I do not exist | F |
I am a worm in the sand | F |
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the reasons for my respect | F |
remained in the sand | F |
the religious bird | F |
did not need to fly | B |
did not need to sing | H |
and through its form was visible | B |
its wild soul bled salt | F |
as if a vein from the bitter sea | C |
had been broken | G |
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Penguin static traveler | E |
deliberate priest of the cold | F |
I salute your vertical salt | F |
and envy your plumed pride | F |
Pablo Neruda
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