Wedlock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DE DD FG AH IJ BDB A KLE MDH NOP DDD QBED A RCBST RDBHR HRU L RBB BBV BWL BXY BRBWW B WZWOW WWW A2B2B2 L BDC2 D2E2ZBILF2D BWB| I | A |
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| Come my little one closer up against me | B |
| Creep right up with your round head pushed in my breast | C |
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| How I love all of you Do you feel me wrap you | D |
| Up with myself and my warmth like a flame round the wick | E |
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| And how I am not at all except a flame that mounts off you | D |
| Where I touch you I flame into being but is it me or you | D |
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| That round head pushed in my chest like a nut in its socket | F |
| And I the swift bracts that sheathe it those breasts those thighs and knees | G |
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| Those shoulders so warm and smooth I feel that I | A |
| Am a sunlight upon them that shines them into being | H |
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| But how lovely to be you Creep closer in that I am more | I |
| I spread over you How lovely your round head your arms | J |
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| Your breasts your knees and feet I feel that we | B |
| Are a bonfire of oneness me flame flung leaping round you | D |
| You the core of the fire crept into me | B |
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| II | A |
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| And oh my little one you whom I enfold | K |
| How quaveringly I depend on you to keep me alive | L |
| Like a flame on a wick | E |
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| I the man who enfolds you and holds you close | M |
| How my soul cleaves to your bosom as I clasp you | D |
| The very quick of my being | H |
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| Suppose you didn't want me I should sink down | N |
| Like a light that has no sustenance | O |
| And sinks low | P |
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| Cherish me my tiny one cherish me who enfold you | D |
| Nourish me and endue me I am only of you | D |
| I am your issue | D |
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| How full and big like a robust happy flame | Q |
| When I enfold you and you creep into me | B |
| And my life is fierce at its quick | E |
| Where it comes off you | D |
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| III | A |
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| My little one my big one | R |
| My bird my brown sparrow in my breast | C |
| My squirrel clutching in to me | B |
| My pigeon my little one so warm | S |
| So close breathing so still | T |
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| My little one my big one | R |
| I who am so fierce and strong enfolding you | D |
| If you start away from my breast and leave me | B |
| How suddenly I shall go down into nothing | H |
| Like a flame that falls of a sudden | R |
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| And you will be before me tall and towering | H |
| And I shall be wavering uncertain | R |
| Like a sunken flame that grasps for support | U |
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| IV | L |
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| But now I am full and strong and certain | R |
| With you there firm at the core of me | B |
| Keeping me | B |
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| How sure I feel how warm and strong and happy | B |
| For the future How sure the future is within me | B |
| I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed | V |
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| I wonder what it will be | B |
| What will come forth of us | W |
| What flower my love | L |
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| No matter I am so happy | B |
| I feel like a firm rich healthy root | X |
| Rejoicing in what is to come | Y |
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| How I depend on you utterly | B |
| My little one my big one | R |
| How everything that will be will not be of me | B |
| Nor of either of us | W |
| But of both of us | W |
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| V | B |
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| And think there will something come forth from us | W |
| We two folded so small together | Z |
| There will something come forth from us | W |
| Children acts utterance | O |
| Perhaps only happiness | W |
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| Perhaps only happiness will come forth from us | W |
| Old sorrow and new happiness | W |
| Only that one newness | W |
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| But that is all I want | A2 |
| And I am sure of that | B2 |
| We are sure of that | B2 |
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| VI | L |
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| And yet all the while you are you you are not me | B |
| And I am I I am never you | D |
| How awfully distinct and far off from each other's being we are | C2 |
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| Yet I am glad | D2 |
| I am so glad there is always you beyond my scope | E2 |
| Something that stands over | Z |
| Something I shall never be | B |
| That I shall always wonder over and wait for | I |
| Look for like the breath of life as long as I live | L |
| Still waiting for you however old you are and I am | F2 |
| I shall always wonder over you and look for you | D |
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| And you will always be with me | B |
| I shall never cease to be filled with newness | W |
| Having you near me | B |
D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)
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