The Light Wraps You Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD CCEC CCFGHC ICJKL| The light wraps you in its mortal flame | A |
| Abstracted pale mourner standing that way | B |
| against the old propellers of the twighlight | C |
| that revolves around you | D |
| - | |
| Speechless my friend | C |
| alone in the loneliness of this hour of the dead | C |
| and filled with the lives of fire | E |
| pure heir of the ruined day | C |
| - | |
| A bough of fruit falls from the sun on your dark garment | C |
| The great roots of night | C |
| grow suddenly from your soul | F |
| and the things that hide in you come out again | G |
| so that a blue and palled people | H |
| your newly born takes nourishment | C |
| - | |
| Oh magnificent and fecund and magnetic slave | I |
| of the circle that moves in turn through black and gold | C |
| rise lead and possess a creation | J |
| so rich in life that its flowers perish | K |
| and it is full of sadness | L |
Pablo Neruda
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About The Light Wraps You
The Light Wraps You is a poem by Pablo Neruda. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.