One Woman To All Women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCB ADAAEAB FGHIIB JBKKKB LMNNNM OPNNNP QBRBBB B| I don't care whether I am beautiful to you | A |
| You other women | B |
| Nothing of me that you see is my own | C |
| A man balances bone unto bone | C |
| Balances everything thrown | C |
| In the scale you other women | B |
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| You may look and say to yourselves I do | A |
| Not show like the rest | D |
| My face may not please you nor my stature yet if you knew | A |
| How happy I am how my heart in the wind rings true | A |
| Like a bell that is chiming each stroke as a stroke | E |
| falls due | A |
| You other women | B |
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| You would draw your mirror towards you you would wish | F |
| To be different | G |
| There's the beauty you cannot see myself and him | H |
| Balanced in glorious equilibrium | I |
| The swinging beauty of equilibrium | I |
| You other women | B |
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| There's this other beauty the way of the stars | J |
| You straggling women | B |
| If you knew how I swerve in peace in the equi poise | K |
| With the man if you knew how my flesh enjoys | K |
| The swinging bliss no shattering ever destroys | K |
| You other women | B |
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| You would envy me you would think me wonderful | L |
| Beyond compare | M |
| You would weep to be lapsing on such harmony | N |
| As carries me you would wonder aloud that he | N |
| Who is so strange should correspond with me | N |
| Everywhere | M |
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| You see he is different he is dangerous | O |
| Without pity or love | P |
| And yet how his separate being liberates me | N |
| And gives me peace You cannot see | N |
| How the stars are moving in surety | N |
| Exquisite high above | P |
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| We move without knowing we sleep and we travel on | Q |
| You other women | B |
| And this is beauty to me to be lifted and gone | R |
| In a motion human inhuman two and one | B |
| Encompassed and many reduced to none | B |
| You other women | B |
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| KENSINGTON | B |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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