The Saddest Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BA C AA DE FG AF FH FI JF FI KF FL MNG FO DF IF| I can write the saddest poem of all tonight | A |
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| Write for instance quot The night is full of stars | B |
| and the stars blue shiver in the distance quot | A |
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| The night wind whirls in the sky and sings | C |
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| I can write the saddest poem of all tonight | A |
| I loved her and sometimes she loved me too | A |
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| On nights like this I held her in my arms | D |
| I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky | E |
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| She loved me sometimes I loved her | F |
| How could I not have loved her large still eyes | G |
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| I can write the saddest poem of all tonight | A |
| To think I don't have her To feel that I've lost her | F |
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| To hear the immense night more immense without her | F |
| And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass | H |
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| What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her | F |
| The night is full of stars and she is not with me | I |
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| That's all Far away someone sings Far away | J |
| My soul is lost without her | F |
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| As if to bring her near my eyes search for her | F |
| My heart searches for her and she is not with me | I |
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| The same night that whitens the same trees | K |
| We we who were we are the same no longer | F |
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| I no longer love her true but how much I loved her | F |
| My voice searched the wind to touch her ear | L |
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| Someone else's She will be someone else's As she once | M |
| belonged to my kisses | N |
| Her voice her light body Her infinite eyes | G |
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| I no longer love her true but perhaps I love her | F |
| Love is so short and oblivion so long | O |
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| Because on nights like this I held her in my arms | D |
| my soul is lost without her | F |
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| Although this may be the last pain she causes me | I |
| and this may be the last poem I write for her | F |
Pablo Neruda
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About The Saddest Poem
The Saddest Poem is a poem by Pablo Neruda. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.