Sunday Afternoon In Italy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIJK LEME NOPO QRFR OSHS TUVW T| The man and the maid go side by side | A |
| With an interval of space between | B |
| And his hands are awkward and want to hide | A |
| She braves it out since she must be seen | B |
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| When some one passes he drops his head | C |
| Shading his face in his black felt hat | D |
| While the hard girl hardens nothing is said | C |
| There is nothing to wonder or cavil at | D |
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| Alone on the open road again | E |
| With the mountain snows across the lake | F |
| Flushing the afternoon they are uncomfortable | G |
| The loneliness daunts them their stiff throats ache | F |
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| And he sighs with relief when she parts from him | H |
| Her proud head held in its black silk scarf | I |
| Gone under the archway home he can join | J |
| The men that lounge in a group on the wharf | K |
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| His evening is a flame of wine | L |
| Among the eager cordial men | E |
| And she with her women hot and hard | M |
| Moves at her ease again | E |
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| She is marked she is singled out | N |
| For the fire | O |
| The brand is upon him look you | P |
| Of desire | O |
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| They are chosen ah they are fated | Q |
| For the fight | R |
| Champion her all you women Men menfolk | F |
| Hold him your light | R |
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| Nourish her train her harden her | O |
| Women all | S |
| Fold him be good to him cherish him | H |
| Men ere he fall | S |
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| Women another champion | T |
| This men is yours | U |
| Wreathe and enlap and anoint them | V |
| Behind separate doors | W |
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| GARGNANO | T |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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