Excursion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCB CCCDEED CCCDFFD GGGHCCI JJJKLLK MMMNHHNI wonder can the night go by | A |
Can this shot arrow of travel fly | A |
Shaft golden with light sheer into the sky | A |
Of a dawned to morrow | B |
Without ever sleep delivering us | C |
From each other or loosing the dolorous | C |
Unfruitful sorrow | B |
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What is it then that you can see | C |
That at the window endlessly | C |
You watch the red sparks whirl and flee | C |
And the night look through | D |
Your presence peering lonelily there | E |
Oppresses me so I can hardly bear | E |
To share the train with you | D |
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You hurt my heart beats' privacy | C |
I wish I could put you away from me | C |
I suffocate in this intimacy | C |
For all that I love you | D |
How I have longed for this night in the train | F |
Yet now every fibre of me cries in pain | F |
To God to remove you | D |
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But surely my soul's best dream is still | G |
That one night pouring down shall swill | G |
Us away in an utter sleep until | G |
We are one smooth rounded | H |
Yet closely bitten in to me | C |
Is this armour of stiff reluctancy | C |
That keeps me impounded | I |
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So dear love when another night | J |
Pours on us lift your fingers white | J |
And strip me naked touch me light | J |
Light light all over | K |
For I ache most earnestly for your touch | L |
Yet I cannot move however much | L |
I would be your lover | K |
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Night after night with a blemish of day | M |
Unblown and unblossomed has withered away | M |
Come another night come a new night say | M |
Will you pluck me apart | N |
Will you open the amorous aching bud | H |
Of my body and loose the burning flood | H |
That would leap to you from my heart | N |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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