The Attack Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JHJH IGIG DGDG| When we came out of the wood | A |
| Was a great light | B |
| The night uprisen stood | A |
| In white | B |
| - | |
| I wondered I looked around | C |
| It was so fair The bright | B |
| Stubble upon the ground | C |
| Shone white | B |
| - | |
| Like any field of snow | D |
| Yet warm the chase | E |
| Of faint night breaths did go | D |
| Across my face | E |
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| White bodied and warm the night was | F |
| Sweet scented to hold in my throat | G |
| White and alight the night was | F |
| A pale stroke smote | G |
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| The pulse through the whole bland being | H |
| Which was This and me | I |
| A pulse that still went fleeing | H |
| Yet did not flee | I |
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| After the terrible rage the death | J |
| This wonder stood glistening | H |
| All shapes of wonder with suspended breath | J |
| Arrested listening | H |
| - | |
| In ecstatic reverie | I |
| The whole white Night | G |
| With wonder every black tree | I |
| Blossomed outright | G |
| - | |
| I saw the transfiguration | D |
| And the present Host | G |
| Transubstantiation | D |
| Of the Luminous Ghost | G |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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