Perfidy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAC DEFFG HIHHJ KLKKM NONNPQNNHollow rang the house when I knocked on the door | A |
And I lingered on the threshold with my hand | B |
Upraised to knock and knock once more | A |
Listening for the sound of her feet across the floor | A |
Hollow re echoed my heart | C |
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The low hung lamps stretched down the road | D |
With shadows drifting underneath | E |
With a music of soft melodious feet | F |
Quickening my hope as I hastened to meet | F |
The low hung light of her eyes | G |
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The golden lamps down the street went out | H |
The last car trailed the night behind | I |
And I in the darkness wandered about | H |
With a flutter of hope and of dark shut doubt | H |
In the dying lamp of my love | J |
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Two brown ponies trotting slowly | K |
Stopped at a dim lit trough to drink | L |
The dark van drummed down the distance slowly | K |
While the city stars so dim and holy | K |
Drew nearer to search through the streets | M |
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A hastening car swept shameful past | N |
I saw her hid in the shadow | O |
I saw her step to the curb and fast | N |
Run to the silent door where last | N |
I had stood with my hand uplifted | P |
She clung to the door in her haste to enter | Q |
Entered and quickly cast | N |
It shut behind her leaving the street aghast | N |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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