Poor Creatures Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFCGHICCDCCCCCJK LCMN| What it takes on this planet | A |
| to make love to each other in peace | B |
| Everyone pries under your sheets | C |
| everyone interferes with your loving | D |
| They say terrible things about a man and a woman | E |
| who after much milling about | F |
| all sorts of compunctions | C |
| do something unique | G |
| they both lie with each other in one bed | H |
| I ask myself whether frogs are so furtive | I |
| or sneeze as they please | C |
| Whether they whisper to each other in swamps about illegitimate frogs | C |
| or the joys of amphibious living | D |
| I ask myself if birds single out enemy birds | C |
| or bulls gossip with bullocks before they go out in public with cows | C |
| Even the roads have eyes and the parks their police | C |
| Hotels spy on their guests | C |
| windows name names | C |
| canons and squadrons debark on missions to liquidate love | J |
| All those ears and those jaws working incessantly | K |
| till a man and his girl | L |
| have to raise their climax | C |
| full tilt | M |
| on a bicycle | N |
Pablo Neruda
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