We Are Many Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFBG HBIDBJ KBLMIN OPFQRST CIUCVDIW XYJDUZA2B2C2DOf the many men whom I am whom we are | A |
I cannot settle on a single one | B |
They are lost to me under the cover of clothing | C |
They have departed for another city | D |
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When everything seems to be set | E |
to show me off as a man of intelligence | F |
the fool I keep concealed on my person | B |
takes over my talk and occupies my mouth | G |
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On other occasions I am dozing in the midst | H |
of people of some distinction | B |
and when I summon my courageous self | I |
a coward completely unknown to me | D |
swaddles my poor skeleton | B |
in a thousand tiny reservations | J |
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When a stately home bursts into flames | K |
instead of the fireman I summon | B |
an arsonist bursts on the scene | L |
and he is I There is nothing I can do | M |
What must I do to distinguish myself | I |
How can I put myself together | N |
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All the books I read | O |
lionize dazzling hero figures | P |
brimming with self assurance | F |
I die with envy of them | Q |
and in films where bullets fly on the wind | R |
I am left in envy of the cowboys | S |
left admiring even the horses | T |
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But when I call upon my DASHING BEING | C |
out comes the same OLD LAZY SELF | I |
and so I never know just WHO I AM | U |
nor how many I am nor WHO WE WILL BE BEING | C |
I would like to be able to touch a bell | V |
and call up my real self the truly me | D |
because if I really need my proper self | I |
I must not allow myself to disappear | W |
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While I am writing I am far away | X |
and when I come back I have already left | Y |
I should like to see if the same thing happens | J |
to other people as it does to me | D |
to see if as many people are as I am | U |
and if they seem the same way to themselves | Z |
When this problem has been thoroughly explored | A2 |
I am going to school myself so well in things | B2 |
that when I try to explain my problems | C2 |
I shall speak not of self but of geography | D |
Pablo Neruda
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