Ode To My Socks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHBIJKLMNOBPQH RB HSTUVFFHQWXHY ZAA2BR| Mara Mori brought me | A |
| a pair of socks | B |
| which she knitted herself | C |
| with her sheepherder's hands | D |
| two socks as soft as rabbits | E |
| I slipped my feet into them | F |
| as if they were two cases | G |
| knitted with threads of twilight and goatskin | H |
| Violent socks | B |
| my feet were two fish made of wool | I |
| two long sharks | J |
| sea blue shot through | K |
| by one golden thread | L |
| two immense blackbirds | M |
| two cannons | N |
| my feet were honored in this way | O |
| by these heavenly socks | B |
| They were so handsome for the first time | P |
| my feet seemed to me unacceptable | Q |
| like two decrepit firemen | H |
| firemen unworthy of that woven fire | R |
| of those glowing socks | B |
| - | |
| Nevertheless I resisted the sharp temptation | H |
| to save them somewhere as schoolboys | S |
| keep fireflies | T |
| as learned men collect | U |
| sacred texts | V |
| I resisted the mad impulse to put them | F |
| in a golden cage and each day give them | F |
| birdseed and pieces of pink melon | H |
| Like explorers in the jungle | Q |
| who hand over the very rare green deer | W |
| to the spit and eat it with remorse | X |
| I stretched out my feet and pulled on | H |
| the magnificent socks and then my shoes | Y |
| - | |
| The moral of my ode is this | Z |
| beauty is twice beauty | A |
| and what is good is doubly good | A2 |
| when it is a matter of two socks | B |
| made of wool in winter | R |
Pablo Neruda
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