Walking Around Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC EFGHI JKA LBMNOP QRST BUCV WXYZA2 B2CKC2D2 HNNIC2E2F2 G2WH2I2J2KW K2It so happens I am sick of being a man | A |
And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie | B |
houses | C |
dried up waterproof like a swan made of felt | D |
steering my way in a water of wombs and ashes | C |
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The smell of barbershops makes me break into hoarse | E |
sobs | F |
The only thing I want is to lie still like stones or wool | G |
The only thing I want is to see no more stores no gardens | H |
no more goods no spectacles no elevators | I |
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It so happens that I am sick of my feet and my nails | J |
and my hair and my shadow | K |
It so happens I am sick of being a man | A |
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Still it would be marvelous | L |
to terrify a law clerk with a cut lily | B |
or kill a nun with a blow on the ear | M |
It would be great | N |
to go through the streets with a green knife | O |
letting out yells until I died of the cold | P |
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I don't want to go on being a root in the dark | Q |
insecure stretched out shivering with sleep | R |
going on down into the moist guts of the earth | S |
taking in and thinking eating every day | T |
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I don't want so much misery | B |
I don't want to go on as a root and a tomb | U |
alone under the ground a warehouse with corpses | C |
half frozen dying of grief | V |
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That's why Monday when it sees me coming | W |
with my convict face blazes up like gasoline | X |
and it howls on its way like a wounded wheel | Y |
and leaves tracks full of warm blood leading toward the | Z |
night | A2 |
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And it pushes me into certain corners into some moist | B2 |
houses | C |
into hospitals where the bones fly out the window | K |
into shoeshops that smell like vinegar | C2 |
and certain streets hideous as cracks in the skin | D2 |
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There are sulphur colored birds and hideous intestines | H |
hanging over the doors of houses that I hate | N |
and there are false teeth forgotten in a coffeepot | N |
there are mirrors | I |
that ought to have wept from shame and terror | C2 |
there are umbrellas everywhere and venoms and umbilical | E2 |
cords | F2 |
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I stroll along serenely with my eyes my shoes | G2 |
my rage forgetting everything | W |
I walk by going through office buildings and orthopedic | H2 |
shops | I2 |
and courtyards with washing hanging from the line | J2 |
underwear towels and shirts from which slow | K |
dirty tears are falling | W |
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Translated by Robert Bly | K2 |
Pablo Neruda
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