Tortoise Gallantry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFGH IJKBLI MNOOPB QBRSD GTGI NUIVIB WNXT YZ| Making his advances | A |
| He does not look at her nor sniff at her | B |
| No not even sniff at her his nose is blank | C |
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| Only he senses the vulnerable folds of skin | D |
| That work beneath her while she sprawls along | E |
| In her ungainly pace | F |
| Her folds of skin that work and row | G |
| Beneath the earth soiled hovel in which she moves | H |
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| And so he strains beneath her housey walls | I |
| And catches her trouser legs in his beak | J |
| Suddenly or her skinny limb | K |
| And strange and grimly drags at her | B |
| Like a dog | L |
| Only agelessly silent with a reptile's awful persistency | I |
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| Grim gruesome gallantry to which he is doomed | M |
| Dragged out of an eternity of silent isolation | N |
| And doomed to partiality partial being | O |
| Ache and want of being | O |
| Want | P |
| Self exposure hard humiliation need to add himself on to her | B |
| - | |
| Born to walk alone | Q |
| Forerunner | B |
| Now suddenly distracted into this mazy sidetrack | R |
| This awkward harrowing pursuit | S |
| This grim necessity from within | D |
| - | |
| Does she know | G |
| As she moves eternally slowly away | T |
| Or is he driven against her with a bang like a bird flying in the dark against a window | G |
| All knowledgeless | I |
| - | |
| The awful concussion | N |
| And the still more awful need to persist to follow follow continue | U |
| Driven after aeons of pristine fore god like singleness and oneness | I |
| At the end of some mysterious red hot iron | V |
| Driven away from himself into her tracks | I |
| Forced to crash against her | B |
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| Stiff gallant irascible crook legged reptile | W |
| Little gentleman | N |
| Sorry plight | X |
| We ought to look the other way | T |
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| Save that having come with you so far | Y |
| We will go on to the end | Z |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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