The Virgin Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEB FBDBAB DGFGDG AHIHDH FDDDGD JKGKLKMy little love my darling | A |
You were a doorway to me | B |
You let me out of the confines | C |
Into this strange countrie | D |
Where people are crowded like thistles | E |
Yet are shapely and comely to see | B |
- | |
My little love my dearest | F |
Twice have you issued me | B |
Once from your womb sweet mother | D |
Once from myself to be | B |
Free of all hearts my darling | A |
Of each heart's home life free | B |
- | |
And so my love my mother | D |
I shall always be true to you | G |
Twice I am born my dearest | F |
To life and to death in you | G |
And this is the life hereafter | D |
Wherein I am true | G |
- | |
I kiss you good bye my darling | A |
Our ways are different now | H |
You are a seed in the night time | I |
I am a man to plough | H |
The difficult glebe of the future | D |
For God to endow | H |
- | |
I kiss you good bye my dearest | F |
It is finished between us here | D |
Oh if I were calm as you are | D |
Sweet and still on your bier | D |
God if I had not to leave you | G |
Alone my dear | D |
- | |
Let the last word be uttered | J |
Oh grant the farewell is said | K |
Spare me the strength to leave you | G |
Now you are dead | K |
I must go but my soul lies helpless | L |
Beside your bed | K |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about The Virgin Mother poem by D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
Best Poems of D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)