The Absence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB C DE F AGFHGI JDKLMN OP| I speak to you across cities | A |
| I speak to you across plains | B |
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| My mouth is upon your pillow | C |
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| Both faces of the walls come meeting | D |
| My voice discovering you | E |
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| I speak to you of eternity | F |
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| O cities memories of cities | A |
| Cities wrapped in our desires | G |
| Cities come early cities come lately | F |
| Cities strong and cities secret | H |
| Plundered of their master's builders | G |
| All their thinkers all their ghosts | I |
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| Fields pattern of emerald | J |
| Bright living surviving | D |
| The harvest of the sky over our earth | K |
| Feeds my voice I dream and weep | L |
| I laugh and dream among the flames | M |
| Among the clusters of the sun | N |
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| And over my body your body spreads | O |
| The sheet of it's bright mirror | P |
Paul Eluard
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