Grey Evening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDCD EFEF GHGH IJJIWhen you went how was it you carried with you | A |
My missal book of fine flamboyant hours | B |
My book of turrets and of red thorn bowers | B |
And skies of gold and ladies in bright tissue | A |
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Now underneath a blue grey twilight heaped | C |
Beyond the withering snow of the shorn fields | D |
Stands rubble of stunted houses all is reaped | C |
And garnered that the golden daylight yields | D |
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Dim lamps like yellow poppies glimmer among | E |
The shadowy stubble of the under dusk | F |
As farther off the scythe of night is swung | E |
And little stars come rolling from their husk | F |
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And all the earth is gone into a dust | G |
Of greyness mingled with a fume of gold | H |
Covered with aged lichens pale with must | G |
And all the sky has withered and gone cold | H |
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And so I sit and scan the book of grey | I |
Feeling the shadows like a blind man reading | J |
All fearful lest I find the last words bleeding | J |
With wounds of sunset and the dying day | I |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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