"Keeping Quiet" is a poem by Pablo Neruda that encourages the reader to take a break from the busyness of life and to embrace stillness and silence. The poem is structured in five stanzas of varying lengths and does not follow a specific rhyme scheme.
1️⃣ First Stanza
The poem begins with the speaker's invitation to the reader to "now we will count to twelve / and we will all keep still." This counting to ....