Ode To Broken Things Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNDOPQDR IDSATDDRU VTWXIYZA2B2C2NQSZD2Z V E2F2G2H2I2LJOJJ2 DZK2JVDDL2JM2N2VO2| Things get broken | A |
| at home | B |
| like they were pushed | C |
| by an invisible deliberate smasher | D |
| It's not my hands | E |
| or yours | F |
| It wasn't the girls | G |
| with their hard fingernails | H |
| or the motion of the planet | I |
| It wasn't anything or anybody | J |
| It wasn't the wind | K |
| It wasn't the orange colored noontime | L |
| Or night over the earth | M |
| It wasn't even the nose or the elbow | N |
| Or the hips getting bigger | D |
| or the ankle | O |
| or the air | P |
| The plate broke the lamp fell | Q |
| All the flower pots tumbled over | D |
| one by one That pot | R |
| which overflowed with scarlet | I |
| in the middle of October | D |
| it got tired from all the violets | S |
| and another empty one | A |
| rolled round and round and round | T |
| all through winter | D |
| until it was only the powder | D |
| of a flowerpot | R |
| a broken memory shining dust | U |
| - | |
| And that clock | V |
| whose sound | T |
| was | W |
| the voice of our lives | X |
| the secret | I |
| thread of our weeks | Y |
| which released | Z |
| one by one so many hours | A2 |
| for honey and silence | B2 |
| for so many births and jobs | C2 |
| that clock also | N |
| fell | Q |
| and its delicate blue guts | S |
| vibrated | Z |
| among the broken glass | D2 |
| its wide heart | Z |
| unsprung | V |
| - | |
| Life goes on grinding up | E2 |
| glass wearing out clothes | F2 |
| making fragments | G2 |
| breaking down | H2 |
| forms | I2 |
| and what lasts through time | L |
| is like an island on a ship in the sea | J |
| perishable | O |
| surrounded by dangerous fragility | J |
| by merciless waters and threats | J2 |
| - | |
| Let's put all our treasures together | D |
| the clocks plates cups cracked by the cold | Z |
| into a sack and carry them | K2 |
| to the sea | J |
| and let our possessions sink | V |
| into one alarming breaker | D |
| that sounds like a river | D |
| May whatever breaks | L2 |
| be reconstructed by the sea | J |
| with the long labor of its tides | M2 |
| So many useless things | N2 |
| which nobody broke | V |
| but which got broken anyway | O2 |
Pablo Neruda
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Ode To Broken Things is a poem by Pablo Neruda. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.