Magellanic Penguin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFBFGEH FCCCCCCFEIFF FFFBHBFCG EFFF| Neither 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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