The Insect Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB C DEFGHI JKLMN OPQRSTU AVGMWSBXPFrom your hips down to your feet | A |
I want to make a long journey | B |
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I am smaller than an insect | C |
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Over these hills I pass | D |
hills the colour of oats | E |
crossed with faint tracks | F |
that only I know | G |
scorched centimetres | H |
pale perspectives | I |
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Now here is a mountain | J |
I shall never leave this | K |
What a giant growth of moss | L |
And a crater a rose | M |
of moist fire | N |
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Coming down your legs | O |
I trace a spiral | P |
or sleep on the way | Q |
and arrive at your knees | R |
round hardness | S |
like the hard peaks | T |
of a bright continent | U |
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Sliding down to your feet | A |
I reach the eight slits | V |
of your pointed slow | G |
peninsular toes | M |
and from them I fall down | W |
to the white emptiness | S |
of the sheet seeking blindly | B |
and hungrily the form | X |
of your fiery crucible | P |
Pablo Neruda
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