Your Laughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFGHI JKLMNFOP QCFRSCTU VWXYZA2DF B2C2D2E2FIF2G2H2I2J2 RCK2| Take bread away from me if you wish | A |
| take air away but | B |
| do not take from me your laughter | C |
| - | |
| Do not take away the rose | D |
| the lance flower that you pluck | E |
| the water that suddenly | F |
| bursts forth in joy | G |
| the sudden wave | H |
| of silver born in you | I |
| - | |
| My struggle is harsh and I come back | J |
| with eyes tired | K |
| at times from having seen | L |
| the unchanging earth | M |
| but when your laughter enters | N |
| it rises to the sky seeking me | F |
| and it opens for me all | O |
| the doors of life | P |
| - | |
| My love in the darkest | Q |
| hour your laughter | C |
| opens and if suddenly | F |
| you see my blood staining | R |
| the stones of the street | S |
| laugh because your laughter | C |
| will be for my hands | T |
| like a fresh sword | U |
| - | |
| Next to the sea in the autumn | V |
| your laughter must raise | W |
| its foamy cascade | X |
| and in the spring love | Y |
| I want your laughter like | Z |
| the flower I was waiting for | A2 |
| the blue flower the rose | D |
| of my echoing country | F |
| - | |
| Laugh at the night | B2 |
| at the day at the moon | C2 |
| laugh at the twisted | D2 |
| streets of the island | E2 |
| laugh at this clumsy | F |
| boy who loves you | I |
| but when I open | F2 |
| my eyes and close them | G2 |
| when my steps go | H2 |
| when my steps return | I2 |
| deny me bread air | J2 |
| light spring | R |
| but never your laughter | C |
| for I would die | K2 |
Pablo Neruda
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