Bavarian Gentians Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BACDEADFGE HIAIBABCJC| Not every man has gentians in his house | A |
| in Soft September at slow Sad Michaelmas | A |
| - | |
| Bavarian gentians big and dark only dark | B |
| darkening the daytime torchlike with the smoking blueness of Pluto's | A |
| gloom | C |
| ribbed and torchlike with their blaze of darkness spread blue | D |
| down flattening into points flattened under the sweep of white day | E |
| torch flower of the blue smoking darkness Pluto's dark blue daze | A |
| black lamps from the halls of Dis burning dark blue | D |
| giving off darkness blue darkness as Demeter's pale lamps give off | F |
| light | G |
| lead me then lead me the way | E |
| - | |
| Reach me a gentian give me a torch | H |
| let me guide myself with the blue forked torch of this flower | I |
| down the darker and darker stairs where blue is darkened on blueness | A |
| even where Persephone goes just now from the frosted September | I |
| to the sightless realm where darkness was awake upon the dark | B |
| and Persephone herself is but a voice | A |
| or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark | B |
| of the arms Plutonic and pierced with the passion of dense gloom | C |
| among the splendor of torches of darkness shedding darkness on the | J |
| lost bride and groom | C |
D. H. Lawrence
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