Song Of Despair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DD DE FG HI JG DG JG KL DM NO PQ DR AS MD TU VW XD JY ZG MD A2R B2C2 JG JD2 E2D BF2 Z C| The memory of you emerges from the night around me | A |
| The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea | A |
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| Deserted like the wharves at dawn | B |
| It is the hour of departure oh deserted one | C |
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| Cold flower heads are raining over my heart | D |
| Oh pit of debris fierce cave of the shipwrecked | D |
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| In you the wars and the flights accumulated | D |
| From you the wings of the song birds rose | E |
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| You swallowed everything like distance | F |
| Like the sea like time In you everything sank | G |
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| It was the happy hour of assault and the kiss | H |
| The hour of the spell that blazed like a lighthouse | I |
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| Pilot's dread fury of blind driver | J |
| turbulent drunkenness of love in you everything sank | G |
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| In the childhood of mist my soul winged and wounded | D |
| Lost discoverer in you everything sank | G |
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| You girdled sorrow you clung to desire | J |
| sadness stunned you in you everything sank | G |
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| I made the wall of shadow draw back | K |
| beyond desire and act I walked on | L |
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| Oh flesh my own flesh woman whom I loved and lost | D |
| I summon you in the moist hour I raise my song to you | M |
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| Like a jar you housed infinite tenderness | N |
| and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar | O |
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| There was the black solitude of the islands | P |
| and there woman of love your arms took me in | Q |
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| There was thirst and hunger and you were the fruit | D |
| There were grief and ruins and you were the miracle | R |
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| Ah woman I do not know how you could contain me | A |
| in the earth of your soul in the cross of your arms | S |
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| How terrible and brief my desire was to you | M |
| How difficult and drunken how tensed and avid | D |
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| Cemetery of kisses there is still fire in your tombs | T |
| still the fruited boughs burn pecked at by birds | U |
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| Oh the bitten mouth oh the kissed limbs | V |
| oh the hungering teeth oh the entwined bodies | W |
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| Oh the mad coupling of hope and force | X |
| in which we merged and despaired | D |
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| And the tenderness light as water and as flour | J |
| And the word scarcely begun on the lips | Y |
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| This was my destiny and in it was my voyage of my longing | Z |
| and in it my longing fell in you everything sank | G |
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| Oh pit of debris everything fell into you | M |
| what sorrow did you not express in what sorrow are you not drowned | D |
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| From billow to billow you still called and sang | A2 |
| Standing like a sailor in the prow of a vessel | R |
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| You still flowered in songs you still brike the currents | B2 |
| Oh pit of debris open and bitter well | C2 |
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| Pale blind diver luckless slinger | J |
| lost discoverer in you everything sank | G |
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| It is the hour of departure the hard cold hour | J |
| which the night fastens to all the timetables | D2 |
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| The rustling belt of the sea girdles the shore | E2 |
| Cold stars heave up black birds migrate | D |
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| Deserted like the wharves at dawn | B |
| Only tremulous shadow twists in my hands | F2 |
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| Oh farther than everything Oh farther than everything | Z |
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| It is the hour of departure Oh abandoned one | C |
Pablo Neruda
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