Listening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIJ KLML NOLO PQMR| I listen to the stillness of you | A |
| My dear among it all | B |
| I feel your silence touch my words as I talk | C |
| And take them in thrall | B |
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| My words fly off a forge | D |
| The length of a spark | E |
| I see the night sky easily sip them | F |
| Up in the dark | E |
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| The lark sings loud and glad | G |
| Yet I am not loth | H |
| That silence should take the song and the bird | I |
| And lose them both | J |
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| A train goes roaring south | K |
| The steam flag flying | L |
| I see the stealthy shadow of silence | M |
| Alongside going | L |
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| And off the forge of the world | N |
| Whirling in the draught of life | O |
| Go sparks of myriad people filling | L |
| The night with strife | O |
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| Yet they never change the darkness | P |
| Or blench it with noise | Q |
| Alone on the perfect silence | M |
| The stars are buoys | R |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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