In The Dark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DD EF FF GG HI JK FF LL FF MM NN OO OO NN PP FF QQ RR DD| A blotch of pallor stirs beneath the high | A |
| Square picture dusk the window of dark sky | A |
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| A sound subdued in the darkness tears | B |
| As if a bird in difficulty up the valley steers | C |
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| Why have you gone to the window Why don't you sleep | D |
| How you have wakened me But why why do you weep | D |
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| I am afraid of you I am afraid afraid | E |
| There is something in you destroys me | F |
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| You have dreamed and are not awake come here to me | F |
| No I have wakened It is you you are cruel to me | F |
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| My dear Yes yes you are cruel to me You cast | G |
| A shadow over my breasts that will kill me at last | G |
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| Come No I'm a thing of life I give | H |
| You armfuls of sunshine and you won't let me live | I |
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| Nay I'm too sleepy Ah you are horrible | J |
| You stand before me like ghosts like a darkness upright | K |
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| I How can you treat me so and love me | F |
| My feet have no hold you take the sky from above me | F |
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| My dear the night is soft and eternal no doubt | L |
| You love it It is dark it kills me I am put out | L |
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| My dear when you cross the street in the sunshine surely | F |
| Your own small night goes with you Why treat it so poorly | F |
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| No no I dance in the sun I'm a thing of life | M |
| Even then it is dark behind you Turn round my wife | M |
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| No how cruel you are you people the sunshine | N |
| With shadows With yours I people the sunshine yours and mine | N |
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| In the darkness we all are gone we are gone with the trees | O |
| And the restless river we are lost and gone with all these | O |
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| But I am myself I have nothing to do with these | O |
| Come back to bed let us sleep on our mysteries | O |
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| Come to me here and lay your body by mine | N |
| And I will be all the shadow you the shine | N |
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| Come you are cold the night has frightened you | P |
| Hark at the river It pants as it hurries through | P |
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| The pine woods How I love them so in their mystery of not to be | F |
| But let me be myself not a river or a tree | F |
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| Kiss me How cold you are Your little breasts | Q |
| Are bubbles of ice Kiss me You know how it rests | Q |
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| One to be quenched to be given up to be gone in the dark | R |
| To be blown out to let night dowse the spark | R |
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| But never mind my love Nothing matters save sleep | D |
| Save you and me and sleep all the rest will keep | D |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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