Ode To A Naked Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFAGHHI JKLMNOPQKRSTUFFB VWPXXJKXXYZYCXA2B2 XZC2D2E2XD2XF2B2D2G2 XD2D2QWYD2 H2With chaste heart and pure | A |
eyes | B |
I celebrate you my beauty | C |
restraining my blood | D |
so that the line | E |
surges and follows | F |
your contour | A |
and you bed yourself in my verse | G |
as in woodland or wave spume | H |
earth's perfume | H |
sea's music | I |
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Nakedly beautiful | J |
whether it is your feet arching | K |
at a primal touch | L |
of sound or breeze | M |
or your ears | N |
tiny spiral shells | O |
from the splendour of America's oceans | P |
Your breasts also | Q |
of equal fullness overflowing | K |
with the living light | R |
and yes | S |
winged | T |
your eyelids of silken corn | U |
that disclose | F |
or enclose | F |
the deep twin landscapes of your eyes | B |
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The line of your back | V |
separating you | W |
falls away into paler regions | P |
then surges | X |
to the smooth hemispheres | X |
of an apple | J |
and goes splitting | K |
your loveliness | X |
into two pillars | X |
of burnt gold pure alabaster | Y |
to be lost in the twin clusters of your feet | Z |
from which once more lifts and takes fire | Y |
the double tree of your symmetry | C |
flower of fire open circle of candles | X |
swollen fruit raised | A2 |
over the meeting of earth and ocean | B2 |
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Your body from what substances | X |
agate quartz ears of wheat | Z |
did it flow was it gathered | C2 |
rising like bread | D2 |
in the warmth | E2 |
and signalling hills | X |
silvered | D2 |
valleys of a single petal sweetnesses | X |
of velvet depth | F2 |
until the pure fine form of woman | B2 |
thickened | D2 |
and rested there | G2 |
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It is not so much light that falls | X |
over the world | D2 |
extended by your body | D2 |
its suffocating snow | Q |
as brightness pouring itself out of you | W |
as if you were | Y |
burning inside | D2 |
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Under your skin the moon is alive | H2 |
Pablo Neruda
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