Both Sides Of The Medal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA ABCD EBFGAHIA JAKL AHMMAN AOPHA QPLR KSL| And because you love me | A |
| think you you do not hate me | A |
| Ha since you love me to ecstasy | A |
| it follows you hate me to ecstasy | A |
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| Because when you hear me | A |
| go down the road outside the house | B |
| you must come to the window to watch me go | C |
| do you think it is pure worship | D |
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| Because when I sit in the room | E |
| here in my own house | B |
| and you want to enlarge yourself with this friend of mine | F |
| such a friend as he is | G |
| yet you cannot get beyond your awareness of me | A |
| you are held back by my being in the same world with you | H |
| do you think it is bliss alone | I |
| sheer harmony | A |
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| No doubt if I were dead you must | J |
| reach into death after me | A |
| but would not your hate reach even more madly than your love | K |
| your impassioned unfinished hate | L |
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| Since you have a passion for me | A |
| as I for you | H |
| does not that passion stand in your way like a Balaam's ass | M |
| and am I not Balaam's ass | M |
| golden mouthed occasionally | A |
| But mostly do you not detest my bray | N |
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| Since you are confined in the orbit of me | A |
| do you not loathe the confinement | O |
| Is not even the beauty and peace of an orbit | P |
| an intolerable prison to you | H |
| as it is to everybody | A |
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| But we will learn to submit | Q |
| each of us to the balanced eternal orbit | P |
| wherein we circle on our fate | L |
| in strange conjunction | R |
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| What is chaos my love | K |
| It is not freedom | S |
| A disarray of falling stars coming to nought | L |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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