Sonnet Viii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDE FGAH IJK LMN| If your eyes were not the color of the moon | A |
| of a day full here interrupted by the baby waking continued about | B |
| hours later | C |
| of a day full of clay and work and fire | C |
| if even held in you did not move in agile grace like the air | D |
| if you were not an amber week | E |
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| not the yellow moment | F |
| when autumn climbs up through the vines | G |
| if you were not that bread the fragrant moon | A |
| kneads sprinkling its flour across the sky | H |
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| oh my dearest I could not love you so | I |
| But when I hold you I hold everything that is | J |
| sand time the tree of the rain | K |
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| everything is alive so that I can be alive | L |
| without moving I can see it all | M |
| in your life I see everything that lives | N |
Pablo Neruda
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Sonnet Viii is a poem by Pablo Neruda. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.