If You Only Knew Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGEHIEJKLMGNEOP EQRGSIGCETIUISVWEMXY ZCLEE| Far from me and like the stars the sea and all the trappings of poetic myth | A |
| Far from me but here all the same without your knowing | B |
| Far from me and even more silent because I imagine you endlessly | C |
| Far from me my lovely mirage and eternal dream you cannot know | D |
| If you only knew | E |
| Far from me and even farther yet from being unaware of me and still unaware | F |
| Far from me because you undoubtedly do not love me or what amounts to the | G |
| same thing that I doubt you do | E |
| Far from me because you consciously ignore my passionate desires | H |
| Far from me because you are cruel | I |
| If you only knew | E |
| Far from me joyful as a flower dancing in the river at the tip of its aquatic stem | J |
| sad as seven p m in a mushroom bed | K |
| Far from me yet silent in my presence and still joyful like a stork shaped hour | L |
| falling from on high | M |
| Far from me at the moment when the stills are singing at the moment when the | G |
| silent and loud sea curls up on its white pillows | N |
| If you only knew | E |
| Far from me o my ever present torment far from me in the magnificent noise of | O |
| oyster shells crushed by a night owl passing a restaurant at first light | P |
| If you only knew | E |
| Far from me willed physical mirage | Q |
| Far from me there's an island that turns aside when ships pass | R |
| Far from me a calm herd of cattle takes the wrong path pulls up stubbornly at the | G |
| edge of a steep cliff far from me cruel woman | S |
| Far from me a shooting star falls into the poet's nightly bottle | I |
| He corks it right away and from then on watches the star enclosed in the glass the | G |
| constellations born on its walls far from me you are so far from me | C |
| If you only knew | E |
| Far from me a house has just been built | T |
| A bricklayer in white coveralls at the top of the scaffolding sings a very sad little | I |
| song and suddenly in the tray full of mortar the future of the house appears | U |
| lovers' kisses and double suicides nakedness in the bedrooms strange beautiful | I |
| women | S |
| and their midnight dreams voluptuous secrets caught in the act by the parquet | V |
| floors | W |
| Far from me If you only knew | E |
| If you only knew how I love you and though you do not love me how happy I | M |
| am how strong and proud I am with your image in my mind | X |
| to leave the universe | Y |
| How happy I am to die for it | Z |
| If you only knew how the world has yielded to me | C |
| And you beautiful unyielding woman how you too are my prisoner | L |
| O you far from me who I yield to | E |
| If you only knew | E |
Robert Desnos
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