Meeting Among The Mountains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJI KLML NOPO QRLR STUT NHHH DLVL HWLW NHXH YZZZ| The little pansies by the road have turned | A |
| Away their purple faces and their gold | B |
| And evening has taken all the bees from the thyme | C |
| And all the scent is shed away by the cold | B |
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| Against the hard and pale blue evening sky | D |
| The mountain's new dropped summer snow is clear | E |
| Glistening in steadfast stillness like transcendent | F |
| Clean pain sending on us a chill down here | G |
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| Christ on the Cross his beautiful young man's body | H |
| Has fallen dead upon the nails and hangs | I |
| White and loose at last with all the pain | J |
| Drawn on his mouth eyes broken at last by his pangs | I |
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| And slowly down the mountain road belated | K |
| A bullock wagon comes so I am ashamed | L |
| To gaze any more at the Christ whom the mountain snows | M |
| Whitely confront I wait on the grass am lamed | L |
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| The breath of the bullock stains the hard chill air | N |
| The band is across its brow and it scarcely seems | O |
| To draw the load so still and slow it moves | P |
| While the driver on the shaft sits crouched in dreams | O |
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| Surely about his sunburnt face is something | Q |
| That vexes me with wonder He sits so still | R |
| Here among all this silence crouching forward | L |
| Dreaming and letting the bullock take its will | R |
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| I stand aside on the grass to let them go | S |
| And Christ I have met his accusing eyes again | T |
| The brown eyes black with misery and hate that look | U |
| Full in my own and the torment starts again | T |
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| One moment the hate leaps at me standing there | N |
| One moment I see the stillness of agony | H |
| Something frozen in the silence that dare not be | H |
| Loosed one moment the darkness frightens me | H |
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| Then among the averted pansies beneath the high | D |
| White peaks of snow at the foot of the sunken Christ | L |
| I stand in a chill of anguish trying to say | V |
| The joy I bought was not too highly priced | L |
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| But he has gone motionless hating me | H |
| Living as the mountains do because they are strong | W |
| With a pale dead Christ on the crucifix of his heart | L |
| And breathing the frozen memory of his wrong | W |
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| Still in his nostrils the frozen breath of despair | N |
| And heart like a cross that bears dead agony | H |
| Of naked love clenched in his fists the shame | X |
| And in his belly the smouldering hate of me | H |
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| And I as I stand in the cold averted flowers | Y |
| Feel the shame wounds in his hands pierce through my own | Z |
| And breathe despair that turns my lungs to stone | Z |
| And know the dead Christ weighing on my bone | Z |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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