Elysium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA AAA BBB CCC DDD DDD EEE FFF GGG HHH IIJ KLK| I have found a place of loneliness | A |
| Lonelier than Lyonesse | A |
| Lovelier than Paradise | A |
| - | |
| Full of sweet stillness | A |
| That no noise can transgress | A |
| Never a lamp distress | A |
| - | |
| The full moon sank in state | B |
| I saw her stand and wait | B |
| For her watchers to shut the gate | B |
| - | |
| Then I found myself in a wonderland | C |
| All of shadow and of bland | C |
| Silence hard to understand | C |
| - | |
| I waited therefore then I knew | D |
| The presence of the flowers that grew | D |
| Noiseless their wonder noiseless blew | D |
| - | |
| And flashing kingfishers that flew | D |
| In sightless beauty and the few | D |
| Shadows the passing wild beast threw | D |
| - | |
| And Eve approaching over the ground | E |
| Unheard and subtle never a sound | E |
| To let me know that I was found | E |
| - | |
| Invisible the hands of Eve | F |
| Upon me travelling to reeve | F |
| Me from the matrix to relieve | F |
| - | |
| Me from the rest Ah terribly | G |
| Between the body of life and me | G |
| Her hands slid in and set me free | G |
| - | |
| Ah with a fearful strange detection | H |
| She found the source of my subjection | H |
| To the All and severed the connection | H |
| - | |
| Delivered helpless and amazed | I |
| From the womb of the All I am waiting dazed | I |
| For memory to be erased | J |
| - | |
| Then I shall know the Elysium | K |
| That lies outside the monstrous womb | L |
| Of time from out of which I come | K |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Elysium poem by D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
Best Poems of D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)