A Bad Beginning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB BCC DEE FGG HCH IJKJ HLEL MNHN OPO| The yellow sun steps over the mountain top | A |
| And falters a few short steps across the lake | B |
| Are you awake | B |
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| See glittering on the milk blue morning lake | B |
| They are laying the golden racing track of the sun | C |
| The day has begun | C |
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| The sun is in my eyes I must get up | D |
| I want to go there's a gold road blazes before | E |
| My breast which is so sore | E |
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| What your throat is bruised bruised with my kisses | F |
| Ah but if I am cruel what then are you | G |
| I am bruised right through | G |
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| What if I love you This misery | H |
| Of your dissatisfaction and misprision | C |
| Stupefies me | H |
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| Ah yes your open arms Ah yes ah yes | I |
| You would take me to your breast But no | J |
| You should come to mine | K |
| It were better so | J |
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| Here I am get up and come to me | H |
| Not as a visitor either nor a sweet | L |
| And winsome child of innocence nor | E |
| As an insolent mistress telling my pulse's beat | L |
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| Come to me like a woman coming home | M |
| To the man who is her husband all the rest | N |
| Subordinate to this that he and she | H |
| Are joined together for ever as is best | N |
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| Behind me on the lake I hear the steamer drumming | O |
| From Austria There lies the world and here | P |
| Am I Which way are you coming | O |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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