Mutilation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DE FD GH IJD HK LM HNOPDQQH LRL S TDHUO VWXYYDZ H| A thick mist sheet lies over the broken wheat | A |
| I walk up to my neck in mist holding my mouth up | B |
| Across there a discoloured moon burns itself out | C |
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| I hold the night in horror | D |
| I dare not turn round | E |
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| To night I have left her alone | F |
| They would have it I have left her for ever | D |
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| Oh my God how it aches | G |
| Where she is cut off from me | H |
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| Perhaps she will go back to England | I |
| Perhaps she will go back | J |
| Perhaps we are parted for ever | D |
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| If I go on walking through the whole breadth of Germany | H |
| I come to the North Sea or the Baltic | K |
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| Over there is Russia Austria Switzerland France in a circle | L |
| I here in the undermist on the Bavarian road | M |
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| It aches in me | H |
| What is England or France far off | N |
| But a name she might take | O |
| I don't mind this continent stretching the sea far away | P |
| It aches in me for her | D |
| Like the agony of limbs cut off and aching | Q |
| Not even longing | Q |
| It is only agony | H |
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| A cripple | L |
| Oh God to be mutilated | R |
| To be a cripple | L |
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| And if I never see her again | S |
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| I think if they told me so | T |
| I could convulse the heavens with my horror | D |
| I think I could alter the frame of things in my agony | H |
| I think I could break the System with my heart | U |
| I think in my convulsion the skies would break | O |
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| She too suffers | V |
| But who could compel her if she chose me against them all | W |
| She has not chosen me finally she suspends her choice | X |
| Night folk Tuatha De Danaan dark Gods govern her sleep | Y |
| Magnificent ghosts of the darkness carry off her decision in sleep | Y |
| Leave her no choice make her lapse me ward make her | D |
| Oh Gods of the living Darkness powers of Night | Z |
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| WOLFRATSHAUSEN | H |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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