The Insect Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB C DEFGHI JKLMN OPQRSTU AVGMWSBXP| From your hips down to your feet | A |
| I want to make a long journey | B |
| - | |
| I am smaller than an insect | C |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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About The Insect
The Insect is a poem by Pablo Neruda. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.