Restlessness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAAB CCDCCD EFEGFGHHHHH AIHAI JKJK LMNNOKKEAT the open door of the room I stand and look at the night | A |
Hold my hand to catch the raindrops that slant into sight | A |
Arriving grey from the darkness above suddenly into the light of the room | B |
I will escape from the hollow room the box of light | A |
And be out in the bewildering darkness which is always fecund which might | A |
Mate my hungry soul with a germ of its womb | B |
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I will go out to the night as a man goes down to the shore | C |
To draw his net through the surfs thin line at the dawn before | C |
The sun warms the sea little lonely and sad sifting the sobbing tide | D |
I will sift the surf that edges the night with my net the four | C |
Strands of my eyes and my lips and my hands and my feet sifting the store | C |
Of flotsam until my soul is tired or satisfied | D |
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I will catch in my eyes' quick net | E |
The faces of all the women as they go past | F |
Bend over them with my soul to cherish the wet | E |
Cheeks and wet hair a moment saying Is it you | G |
Looking earnestly under the dark umbrellas held fast | F |
Against the wind and if where the lamplight blew | G |
Its rainy swill about us she answered me | H |
With a laugh and a merry wildness that it was she | H |
Who was seeking me and had found me at last to free | H |
Me now from the stunting bonds of my chastity | H |
How glad I should be | H |
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Moving along in the mysterious ebb of the night | A |
Pass the men whose eyes are shut like anemones in a dark pool | I |
Why don't they open with vision and speak to me | H |
what have they in sight | A |
Why do I wander aimless among them desirous fool | I |
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I can always linger over the huddled books on the stalls | J |
Always gladden my amorous fingers with the touch of their leaves | K |
Always kneel in courtship to the shelves in the doorways where falls | J |
The shadow always offer myself to one mistress who always receives | K |
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But oh it is not enough it is all no good | L |
There is something I want to feel in my running blood | M |
Something I want to touch I must hold my face to the rain | N |
I must hold my face to the wind and let it explain | N |
Me its life as it hurries in secret | O |
I will trail my hands again through the drenched cold leaves | K |
Till my hands are full of the chillness and touch of leaves | K |
Till at length they induce me to sleep and to forget | E |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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