Embankment At Night, Before The War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEF B BCDEF G FHAIJ K FHAIJ L| Charity | A |
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| By the river | B |
| In the black wet night as the furtive rain slinks down | C |
| Dropping and starting from sleep | D |
| Alone on a seat | E |
| A woman crouches | F |
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| I must go back to her | B |
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| I want to give her | B |
| Some money Her hand slips out of the breast of her gown | C |
| Asleep My fingers creep | D |
| Carefully over the sweet | E |
| Thumb mound into the palm's deep pouches | F |
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| So the gift | G |
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| God how she starts | F |
| And looks at me and looks in the palm of her hand | H |
| And again at me | A |
| I turn and run | I |
| Down the Embankment run for my life | J |
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| But why why | K |
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| Because of my heart's | F |
| Beating like sobs I come to myself and stand | H |
| In the street spilled over splendidly | A |
| With wet flat lights What I've done | I |
| I know not my soul is in strife | J |
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| The touch was on the quick I want to forget | L |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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