She Said As Well To Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMN LOPQRRSTU VWXYZ A2B2C2D2E2F2R G2H2L I2LLJ2K2LL2M2L2L2N2L O2P2Q2 R2S2L| She said as well to me Why are you ashamed | A |
| That little bit of your chest that shows between | B |
| the gap of your shirt why cover it up | C |
| Why shouldn't your legs and your good strong thighs | D |
| be rough and hairy I'm glad they are like that | E |
| You are shy you silly you silly shy thing | F |
| Men are the shyest creatures they never will come | G |
| out of their covers Like any snake | H |
| slipping into its bed of dead leaves you hurry into your clothes | I |
| And I love you so Straight and clean and all of a piece is the body of a man | J |
| such an instrument a spade like a spear or an oar | K |
| such a joy to me | L |
| So she laid her hands and pressed them down my sides | M |
| so that I began to wonder over myself and what I was | N |
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| She said to me What an instrument your body | L |
| single and perfectly distinct from everything else | O |
| What a tool in the hands of the Lord | P |
| Only God could have brought it to its shape | Q |
| It feels as if his handgrasp wearing you | R |
| had polished you and hollowed you | R |
| hollowed this groove in your sides grasped you under the breasts | S |
| and brought you to the very quick of your form | T |
| subtler than an old soft worn fiddle bow | U |
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| When I was a child I loved my father's riding whip | V |
| that he used so often | W |
| I loved to handle it it seemed like a near part of him | X |
| So I did his pens and the jasper seal on his desk | Y |
| Something seemed to surge through me when I touched them | Z |
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| So it is with you but here | A2 |
| The joy I feel | B2 |
| God knows what I feel but it is joy | C2 |
| Look you are clean and fine and singled out | D2 |
| I admire you so you are beautiful this clean sweep of your sides this firmness this hard mould | E2 |
| I would die rather than have it injured with one scar | F2 |
| I wish I could grip you like the fist of the Lord and have you | R |
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| So she said and I wondered | G2 |
| feeling trammelled and hurt | H2 |
| It did not make me free | L |
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| Now I say to her No tool no instrument no God | I2 |
| Don't touch me and appreciate me | L |
| It is an infamy | L |
| You would think twice before you touched a weasel on a fence | J2 |
| as it lifts its straight white throat | K2 |
| Your hand would not be so flig and easy | L |
| Nor the adder we saw asleep with her head on her shoulder | L2 |
| curled up in the sunshine like a princess | M2 |
| when she lifted her head in delicate startled wonder | L2 |
| you did not stretch forward to caress her | L2 |
| though she looked rarely beautiful | N2 |
| and a miracle as she glided delicately away with such dignity | L |
| And the young bull in the field with his wrinkled sad face | O2 |
| you are afraid if he rises to his feet | P2 |
| though he is all wistful and pathetic like a monolith arrested static | Q2 |
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| Is there nothing in me to make you hesitate | R2 |
| I tell you there is all these | S2 |
| And why should you overlook them in me | L |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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