The Old Women Of The Ocean Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GCH IJK LMN OPQ RST UVU WXLYTo the solemn sea the old women come | A |
With their shawls knotted around their necks | B |
With their fragile feet cracking | C |
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They sit down alone on the shore | D |
Without moving their eyes or their hands | E |
Without changing the clouds or the silence | F |
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The obscene sea breaks and claws | G |
Rushes downhill trumpeting | C |
Shakes its bull's beard | H |
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The gentle old ladies seated | I |
As if in a transparent boat | J |
They look at the terrorist waves | K |
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Where will they go and where have they been | L |
They come from every corner | M |
They come from our own lives | N |
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Now they have the ocean | O |
The cold and burning emptiness | P |
The solitude full of flames | Q |
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They come from all the pasts | R |
From houses which were fragrant | S |
From burnt up evenings | T |
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They look or don't look at the sea | U |
With their walking sticks they draw signs in the sand | V |
And the sea erases their calligraphy | U |
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The old women get up and go away | W |
With their fragile bird feet | X |
While the waves flood in | L |
Traveling naked in the wind | Y |
Pablo Neruda
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