After Many Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE FGFGI wonder if with you as it is with me | A |
If under your slipping words that easily flow | B |
About you as a garment easily | A |
Your violent heart beats to and fro | B |
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Long have I waited never once confessed | C |
Even to myself how bitter the separation | D |
Now being come again how make the best | C |
Reparation | D |
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If I could cast this clothing off from me | A |
If I could lift my naked self to you | E |
Or if only you would repulse me a wound would be | A |
Good it would let the ache come through | E |
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But that you hold me still so kindly cold | F |
Aloof my flaming heart will not allow | G |
Yea but I loathe you that you should withhold | F |
Your pleasure now | G |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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