Last Words To Miriam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACB DEDCE FGFHG IJIIJ IJIKJ LMLKM NONIOYours is the shame and sorrow | A |
But the disgrace is mine | B |
Your love was dark and thorough | A |
Mine was the love of the sun for a flower | C |
He creates with his shine | B |
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I was diligent to explore you | D |
Blossom you stalk by stalk | E |
Till my fire of creation bore you | D |
Shrivelling down in the final dour | C |
Anguish then I suffered a balk | E |
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I knew your pain and it broke | F |
My fine craftsman's nerve | G |
Your body quailed at my stroke | F |
And my courage failed to give you the last | H |
Fine torture you did deserve | G |
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You are shapely you are adorned | I |
But opaque and dull in the flesh | J |
Who had I but pierced with the thorned | I |
Fire threshing anguish were fused and cast | I |
In a lovely illumined mesh | J |
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Like a painted window the best | I |
Suffering burnt through your flesh | J |
Undrossed it and left it blest | I |
With a quivering sweet wisdom of grace but now | K |
Who shall take you afresh | J |
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Now who will burn you free | L |
From your body's terrors and dross | M |
Since the fire has failed in me | L |
What man will stoop in your flesh to plough | K |
The shrieking cross | M |
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A mute nearly beautiful thing | N |
Is your face that fills me with shame | O |
As I see it hardening | N |
Warping the perfect image of God | I |
And darkening my eternal fame | O |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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