So That You Will Hear Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EF GHA IJKL MN OA PQR RAS TL RR| So that you will hear me | A |
| my words | B |
| sometimes grow thin | C |
| as the tracks of the gulls on the beaches | D |
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| Necklace drunken bell | E |
| for your hands smooth as grapes | F |
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| And I watch my words from a long way off | G |
| They are more yours than mine | H |
| They climb on my old suffering like ivy | A |
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| It climbs the same way on damp walls | I |
| You are to blame for this cruel sport | J |
| They are fleeing from my dark lair | K |
| You fill everything you fill everything | L |
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| Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy | M |
| and they are more used to my sadness than you are | N |
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| Now I want them to say what I want to say to you | O |
| to make you hear as I want you to hear me | A |
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| The wind of anguish still hauls on them as usual | P |
| Sometimes hurricanes of dreams still knock them over | Q |
| You listen to other voices in my painful voice | R |
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| Lament of old mouths blood of old supplications | R |
| Love me companion Don't forsake me Follow me | A |
| Follow me companion on this wave of anguish | S |
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| But my words become stained with your love | T |
| You occupy everything you occupy everything | L |
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| I am making them into an endless necklace | R |
| for your white hands smooth as grapes | R |
Pablo Neruda
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