Ode To The Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDDDEFDGHDDIJKLM LNIDOPGQRP ESTIDEDDUDVDDDOWXAYD EWOZDRDDDSDSA2B2C2DI DDBD2DLE2B2PUWhen I close a book | A |
I open life | B |
I hear | C |
faltering cries | D |
among harbours | D |
Copper ignots | D |
slide down sand pits | D |
to Tocopilla | E |
Night time | F |
Among the islands | D |
our ocean | G |
throbs with fish | H |
touches the feet the thighs | D |
the chalk ribs | D |
of my country | I |
The whole of night | J |
clings to its shores by dawn | K |
it wakes up singing | L |
as if it had excited a guitar | M |
- | |
The ocean's surge is calling | L |
The wind | N |
calls me | I |
and Rodriguez calls | D |
and Jose Antonio | O |
I got a telegram | P |
from the quot Mine quot Union | G |
and the one I love | Q |
whose name I won't let out | R |
expects me in Bucalemu | P |
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No book has been able | E |
to wrap me in paper | S |
to fill me up | T |
with typography | I |
with heavenly imprints | D |
or was ever able | E |
to bind my eyes | D |
I come out of books to people orchards | D |
with the hoarse family of my song | U |
to work the burning metals | D |
or to eat smoked beef | V |
by mountain firesides | D |
I love adventurous | D |
books | D |
books of forest or snow | O |
depth or sky | W |
but hate | X |
the spider book | A |
in which thought | Y |
has laid poisonous wires | D |
to trap the juvenile | E |
and circling fly | W |
Book let me go | O |
I won't go clothed | Z |
in volumes | D |
I don't come out | R |
of collected works | D |
my poems | D |
have not eaten poems | D |
they devour | S |
exciting happenings | D |
feed on rough weather | S |
and dig their food | A2 |
out of earth and men | B2 |
I'm on my way | C2 |
with dust in my shoes | D |
free of mythology | I |
send books back to their shelves | D |
I'm going down into the streets | D |
I learned about life | B |
from life itself | D2 |
love I learned in a single kiss | D |
and could teach no one anything | L |
except that I have lived | E2 |
with something in common among men | B2 |
when fighting with them | P |
when saying all their say in my song | U |
Pablo Neruda
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