Your Hands Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFHIJKLMHNOPQR STHUVWEXYZYA2B2C2OPC| When your hands leap | A |
| towards mine love | B |
| what do they bring me in flight | C |
| Why did they stop | D |
| at my lips so suddenly | E |
| why do I know them | F |
| as if once before | G |
| I have touched them | F |
| as if before being | H |
| they travelled | I |
| my forehead my waist | J |
| Their smoothness came | K |
| winging through time | L |
| over the sea and the smoke | M |
| over the Spring | H |
| and when you laid | N |
| your hands on my chest | O |
| I knew those wings | P |
| of the gold doves | Q |
| I knew that clay | R |
| and that colour of grain | S |
| The years of my life | T |
| have been roadways of searching | H |
| a climbing of stairs | U |
| a crossing of reefs | V |
| Trains hurled me onwards | W |
| waters recalled me | E |
| on the surface of grapes | X |
| it seemed that I touched you | Y |
| Wood of a sudden | Z |
| made contact with you | Y |
| the almond tree summoned | A2 |
| your hidden smoothness | B2 |
| until both your hands | C2 |
| closed on my chest | O |
| like a pair of wings | P |
| ending their flight | C |
Pablo Neruda
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