Sleep Spaces Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEDFGHDIJKLMNOPL QRSRTUVWXYLZA2XB2C2D 2LE2F2G2H2DDIn the night there are of course the seven wonders | A |
of the world and the greatness tragedy and enchantment | B |
Forests collide with legendary creatures hiding in thickets | C |
There is you | D |
In the night there are the walker's footsteps the murderer's | A |
the town policeman's light from the street lamp and the ragman's lantern | E |
There is you | D |
In the night trains go past and boats | F |
and the fantasy of countries where it's daytime The last breaths | G |
of twilight and the first shivers of dawn | H |
There is you | D |
A piano tune a shout | I |
A door slams A clock | J |
And not only beings and things and physical sounds | K |
But also me chasing myself or endlessly going beyond me | L |
There is you the sacrifice you that I'm waiting for | M |
Sometimes at the moment of sleep strange figures are born and disappear | N |
When I shut my eyes phosphorescent blooms appear and fade | O |
and come to life again like fireworks made of flesh | P |
I pass through strange lands with creatures for company | L |
No doubt you are there my beautiful discreet spy | Q |
And the palpable soul of the vast reaches | R |
And perfumes of the sky and the stars the song of a rooster | S |
from years ago and piercing screams in a flaming park and kisses | R |
Sinister handshakes in a sickly light and axles grinding on paralyzing roads | T |
No doubt there is you who I do not know who on the contrary I do know | U |
But who here in my dreams demands to be felt without ever appearing | V |
You who remain out of reach in reality and in dream | W |
You who belong to me through my will to possess your illusion | X |
but who brings your face near mine only if my eyes are closed in dream as well as | Y |
in reality | L |
You who in spite of an easy rhetoric where the waves die on the beach | Z |
where crows fly into ruined factories where the wood rots | A2 |
crackling under a lead sun | X |
You who are at the depths of my dreams stirring up a mind | B2 |
full of metamorphoses leaving me your glove | C2 |
when I kiss your hand | D2 |
In the night there are stars and the shadowy motion of the sea | L |
of rivers forests towns grass and the lungs | E2 |
of millions and millions of beings | F2 |
In the night there are the seven wonders of the world | G2 |
In the night there are no guardian angels but there is sleep | H2 |
In the night there is you | D |
In the daylight too | D |
Robert Desnos
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