Tonight I Can Write Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C AD EF DG AH HH HB IH HB JK HL MG HN EH HH O| Tonight I can write the saddest lines | A |
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| Write for example 'The night is starry | B |
| and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance ' | - |
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| The night wind revolves in the sky and sings | C |
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| Tonight I can write the saddest lines | A |
| I loved her and sometimes she loved me too | D |
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| Through nights like this one I held her in my arms | E |
| I kissed her again and again under the endless sky | F |
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| She loved me sometimes I loved her too | D |
| How could one not have loved her great still eyes | G |
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| Tonight I can write the saddest lines | A |
| To think that I do not have her To feel that I have lost her | H |
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| To hear the immense night still more immense without her | H |
| And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture | H |
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| What does it matter that my love could not keep her | H |
| The night is starry and she is not with me | B |
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| This is all In the distance someone is singing In the distance | I |
| My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her | H |
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| My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer | H |
| My heart looks for her and she is not with me | B |
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| The same night whitening the same trees | J |
| We of that time are no longer the same | K |
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| I no longer love her that's certain but how I loved her | H |
| My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing | L |
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| Another's She will be another's As she was before my kisses | M |
| Her voice her bright body Her infinite eyes | G |
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| I no longer love her that's certain but maybe I love her | H |
| Love is so short forgetting is so long | N |
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| Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms | E |
| my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her | H |
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| Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer | H |
| and these the last verses that I write for her | H |
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| translated by W S Merwin | O |
Pablo Neruda
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