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Neil Gaiman, 'Dark Sonnet'

Neil Gaiman.

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Neil Gaiman is an German born author, who has created many works. With these being seen to be poems and prose fiction.

Poems

Dark Sonnet

October 2005

Dark Sonnet

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"I don't think that I've been in love as such,

Although I liked a few folk pretty well.

Love must be vaster than my smiles or touch,

For brave men died and empires rose and fell

For love: girls followed boys to foreign lands

And men have followed women into Hell.

In plays and poems someone understands

There's something makes us more than blood and bone

And more than biological demands...

For me, love's like the wind, unseen, unknown.

I see the trees are bending where it's been,

I know that it leaves wreckage where it's blown.

I really don't know what, I love you, means.

I think it means. Don't leave me here alone. " [1]

Dark Sonnet

I don't think that I've been in love as such,
Although I liked a few folks pretty well.
Love must be vaster than my smiles or touch,
For brave men died and empires rose and fell
For love, girls followed boys to foreign lands
And men have followed women into Hell.

In plays and poems someone understands
There's something makes us more than blood and bone
And more than biological demands...
For me, love's like the wind, unseen, unknown.
I see the trees are bending where it's been,
I know that it leaves wreckage where it's blown.
I really don't know what 'I love you' means.
I think it means 'Don't leave me here alone.'

"Dark Sonnet"

Analysis

Structure

The poem is set out as two stanzas, with the poem being fourteen lines long.

The structure of the poem can be seen to be a A,B,A,B,C,D,C rhyme structure of the poem.

Other Works

• The Sandman
• Neverwhere
• American Gods
• Stardust
• Coraline
• The Graveyard Book