Ode To A Naked Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFAGHHI JKLMNOPQKRSTUFFB VWPXXJKXXYZYCXA2B2 XZC2D2E2XD2XF2B2D2G2 XD2D2QWYD2 H2| With 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| Under your skin the moon is alive | H2 |
Pablo Neruda
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Ode To A Naked Beauty is a poem by Pablo Neruda. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.