Nostalgia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC CEFC GHHG DIID JKKJ| The waning moon looks upward this grey night | A |
| Slopes round the heavens in one smooth curve | B |
| Of easy sailing odd red wicks serve | B |
| To show where the ships at sea move out of sight | A |
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| The place is palpable me for here I was born | C |
| Of this self same darkness Yet the shadowy house below | D |
| Is out of bounds and only the old ghosts know | D |
| I have come I feel them whimper in welcome and mourn | C |
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| My father suddenly died in the harvesting corn | C |
| And the place is no longer ours Watching I hear | E |
| No sound from the strangers the place is dark and fear | F |
| Opens my eyes till the roots of my vision seems torn | C |
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| Can I go no nearer never towards the door | G |
| The ghosts and I we mourn together and shrink | H |
| In the shadow of the cart shed Must we hover on the brink | H |
| Forever and never enter the homestead any more | G |
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| Is it irrevocable Can I really not go | D |
| Through the open yard way Can I not go past the sheds | I |
| And through to the mowie Only the dead in their beds | I |
| Can know the fearful anguish that this is so | D |
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| I kiss the stones I kiss the moss on the wall | J |
| And wish I could pass impregnate into the place | K |
| I wish I could take it all in a last embrace | K |
| I wish with my breast I here could annihilate it all | J |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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