Street Lamps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDDC EECFFEC GGHIIH JJKLLKJ MMGNNG OOPCCOP| Gold with an innermost speck | A |
| Of silver singing afloat | B |
| Beneath the night | C |
| Like balls of thistle down | D |
| Wandering up and down | D |
| Over the whispering town | D |
| Seeking where to alight | C |
| - | |
| Slowly above the street | E |
| Above the ebb of feet | E |
| Drifting in flight | C |
| Still in the purple distance | F |
| The gold of their strange persistence | F |
| As they cross and part and meet | E |
| And pass out of sight | C |
| - | |
| The seed ball of the sun | G |
| Is broken at last and done | G |
| Is the orb of day | H |
| Now to the separate ends | I |
| Seed after day seed wends | I |
| A separate way | H |
| - | |
| No sun will ever rise | J |
| Again on the wonted skies | J |
| In the midst of the spheres | K |
| The globe of the day over ripe | L |
| Is shattered at last beneath the stripe | L |
| Of the wind and its oneness veers | K |
| Out myriad wise | J |
| - | |
| Seed after seed after seed | M |
| Drifts over the town in its need | M |
| To sink and have done | G |
| To settle at last in the dark | N |
| To bury its weary spark | N |
| Where the end is begun | G |
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| Darkness and depth of sleep | O |
| Nothing to know or to weep | O |
| Where the seed sinks in | P |
| To the earth of the under night | C |
| Where all is silent quite | C |
| Still and the darknesses steep | O |
| Out all the sin | P |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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