After Many Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE FGFG| I wonder if with you as it is with me | A |
| If under your slipping words that easily flow | B |
| About you as a garment easily | A |
| Your violent heart beats to and fro | B |
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| Long have I waited never once confessed | C |
| Even to myself how bitter the separation | D |
| Now being come again how make the best | C |
| Reparation | D |
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| If I could cast this clothing off from me | A |
| If I could lift my naked self to you | E |
| Of if only you would repulse me a wound would be | A |
| Good it would let the ache come through | E |
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| But that you hold me still so kindly cold | F |
| Aloof my floating heart will not allow | G |
| Yea but I loathe you that you should withhold | F |
| Your pleasure now | G |
D. H. Lawrence
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