Hymn To Priapus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE FGHG FGIG JKLM NLGL OIPI QRSR ITIT ABCB UVIW XYZY IA2B2A2 UA2UA2 B2DC2D| My love lies underground | A |
| With her face upturned to mine | B |
| And her mouth unclosed in a last long kiss | C |
| That ended her life and mine | B |
| - | |
| I dance at the Christmas party | D |
| Under the mistletoe | E |
| Along with a ripe slack country lass | F |
| Jostling to and fro | E |
| - | |
| The big soft country lass | F |
| Like a loose sheaf of wheat | G |
| Slipped through my arms on the threshing floor | H |
| At my feet | G |
| - | |
| The warm soft country lass | F |
| Sweet as an armful of wheat | G |
| At threshing time broken was broken | I |
| For me and ah it was sweet | G |
| - | |
| Now I am going home | J |
| Fulfilled and alone | K |
| I see the great Orion standing | L |
| Looking down | M |
| - | |
| He's the star of my first beloved | N |
| Love making | L |
| The witness of all that bitter sweet | G |
| Heart aching | L |
| - | |
| Now he sees this as well | O |
| This last commission | I |
| Nor do I get any look | P |
| Of admonition | I |
| - | |
| He can add the reckoning up | Q |
| I suppose between now and then | R |
| Having walked himself in the thorny difficult | S |
| Ways of men | R |
| - | |
| He has done as I have done | I |
| No doubt | T |
| Remembered and forgotten | I |
| Turn and about | T |
| - | |
| My love lies underground | A |
| With her face upturned to mine | B |
| And her mouth unclosed in the last long kiss | C |
| That ended her life and mine | B |
| - | |
| She fares in the stark immortal | U |
| Fields of death | V |
| I in these goodly frozen | I |
| Fields beneath | W |
| - | |
| Something in me remembers | X |
| And will not forget | Y |
| The stream of my life in the darkness | Z |
| Deathward set | Y |
| - | |
| And something in me has forgotten | I |
| Has ceased to care | A2 |
| Desire comes up and contentment | B2 |
| Is debonair | A2 |
| - | |
| I who am worn and careful | U |
| How much do I care | A2 |
| How is it I grin then and chuckle | U |
| Over despair | A2 |
| - | |
| Grief grief I suppose and sufficient | B2 |
| Grief makes us free | D |
| To be faithless and faithful together | C2 |
| As we have to be | D |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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