The Question Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB BC DE FGH ICBJKL IMNOPMQRC MCSTUVWC XYZA2A2MA2QB2IC2| Love a question | A |
| has destroyed you | B |
| - | |
| I have come back to you | B |
| from thorny uncertainty | C |
| - | |
| I want you straight as | D |
| the sword or the road | E |
| - | |
| But you insist | F |
| on keeping a nook | G |
| of shadow that I do not want | H |
| - | |
| My love | I |
| understand me | C |
| I love all of you | B |
| from eyes to feet to toenails | J |
| inside | K |
| all the brightness which you kept | L |
| - | |
| It is I my love | I |
| who knocks at your door | M |
| It is not the ghost it is not | N |
| the one who once stopped | O |
| at your window | P |
| I knock down the door | M |
| I enter your life | Q |
| I come to live in your soul | R |
| you cannot cope with me | C |
| - | |
| You must open door to door | M |
| you must obey me | C |
| you must open your eyes | S |
| so that I may search in them | T |
| you must see how I walk | U |
| with heavy steps | V |
| along all the roads | W |
| that blind were waiting for me | C |
| - | |
| Do not fear | X |
| I am yours | Y |
| but | Z |
| I am not the passenger or the beggar | A2 |
| I am your master | A2 |
| the one you were waiting for | M |
| and now I enter | A2 |
| your life | Q |
| no more to leave it | B2 |
| love love love | I |
| but to stay | C2 |
Pablo Neruda
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