The Dead Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF C GG HIHJ KKLMNO KBPQRSTUVBWXYOIf suddenly you do not exist | A |
if suddenly you no longer live | B |
I shall live on | C |
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I do not dare | D |
I do not dare to write it | E |
if you die | F |
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I shall live on | C |
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For where a man has no voice | G |
there my voice | G |
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Where blacks are beaten | H |
I cannot be dead | I |
When my brothers go to prison | H |
I shall go with them | J |
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When victory | K |
not my victory | K |
but the great victory comes | L |
even though I am mute I must speak | M |
I shall see it come even | N |
though I am blind | O |
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No forgive me | K |
If you no longer live | B |
if you beloved my love | P |
if you have died | Q |
all the leaves will fall in my breast | R |
it will rain on my soul night and day | S |
the snow will burn my heart | T |
I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow | U |
my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but | V |
I shall stay alive | B |
because above all things | W |
you wanted me indomitable | X |
and my love because you know that I am not only a man | Y |
but all mankind | O |
Pablo Neruda
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