Poor Fellows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFCGHICCDCCCCCJK LCMNWhat 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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