Ode To My Socks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHBIJKLMNOBPQH RB HSTUVFFHQWXHY ZAA2BRMara 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 |
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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 |
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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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