Reproach Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBACDEF GHIHGIJKL JKLMMJLJHad I but known yesterday | A |
Helen you could discharge the ache | B |
Out of the cloud | C |
Had I known yesterday you could take | B |
The turgid electric ache away | A |
Drink it up with your proud | C |
White body as lovely white lightning | D |
Is drunk from an agonised sky by the earth | E |
I might have hated you Helen | F |
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But since my limbs gushed full of fire | G |
Since from out of my blood and bone | H |
Poured a heavy flame | I |
To you earth of my atmosphere stone | H |
Of my steel lovely white flint of desire | G |
You have no name | I |
Earth of my swaying atmosphere | J |
Substance of my inconstant breath | K |
I cannot but cleave to you | L |
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Since you have drunken up the drear | J |
Painful electric storm and death | K |
Is washed from the blue | L |
Of my eyes I see you beautiful | M |
You are strong and passive and beautiful | M |
I come like winds that uncertain hover | J |
But you | L |
Are the earth I hover over | J |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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