Paradise Re-entered Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADAD EFEF EEEG EEEG EEEH EEEH IIIJ KLLJ CCCM CCCM| Through the strait gate of passion | A |
| Between the bickering fire | B |
| Where flames of fierce love tremble | C |
| On the body of fierce desire | B |
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| To the intoxication | A |
| The mind fused down like a bead | D |
| Flees in its agitation | A |
| The flames' stiff speed | D |
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| At last to calm incandescence | E |
| Burned clean by remorseless hate | F |
| Now at the day's renascence | E |
| We approach the gate | F |
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| Now from the darkened spaces | E |
| Of fear and of frightened faces | E |
| Death in our awful embraces | E |
| Approached and passed by | G |
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| We near the flame burnt porches | E |
| Where the brands of the angels like torches | E |
| Whirl in these perilous marches | E |
| Pausing to sigh | G |
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| We look back on the withering roses | E |
| The stars in their sun dimmed closes | E |
| Where 'twas given us to repose us | E |
| Sure on our sanctity | H |
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| Beautiful candid lovers | E |
| Burnt out of our earthy covers | E |
| We might have nestled like plovers | E |
| In the fields of eternity | H |
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| There sure in sinless being | I |
| All seen and then all seeing | I |
| In us life unto death agreeing | I |
| We might have lain | J |
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| But we storm the angel guarded | K |
| Gates of the long discarded | L |
| Garden which God has hoarded | L |
| Against our pain | J |
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| The Lord of Hosts and the Devil | C |
| Are left on Eternity's level | C |
| Field and as victors we travel | C |
| To Eden home | M |
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| Back beyond good and evil | C |
| Return we Eve dishevel | C |
| Your hair for the bliss drenched revel | C |
| On our primal loam | M |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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