Troth With The Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGHGIJKLThe moon is broken in twain and half a moon | A |
Before me lies on the still pale floor of the sky | B |
The other half of the broken coin of troth | C |
Is buried away in the dark where the still dead lie | B |
They buried her half in the grave when they laid her away | D |
I had pushed it gently in among the thick of her hair | E |
Where it gathered towards the plait on that very last day | D |
And like a moon in secret it is shining there | E |
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My half shines in the sky for a general sign | F |
Of the troth with the dead I pledged myself to keep | G |
Turning its broken edge to the dark it shines indeed | H |
Like the sign of a lover who turns to the dark of sleep | G |
Against my heart the inviolate sleep breaks still | I |
In darkened waves whose breaking echoes o'er | J |
The wondering world of my wakeful day till I'm lost | K |
In the midst of the places I knew so well before | L |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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