Bitterness Of Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBA CDEEDC FGHHGF FCGICF EJKLJE EMEEME CENNEC OEPQEO CQRRQC SQTTQL ELIGLE MQQQQM| Ah stern cold man | A |
| How can you lie so relentless hard | B |
| While I wash you with weeping water | C |
| Do you set your face against the daughter | C |
| Of life Can you never discard | B |
| Your curt pride's ban | A |
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| You masquerader | C |
| How can you shame to act this part | D |
| Of unswerving indifference to me | E |
| You want at last ah me | E |
| To break my heart | D |
| Evader | C |
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| You know your mouth | F |
| Was always sooner to soften | G |
| Even than your eyes | H |
| Now shut it lies | H |
| Relentless however often | G |
| I kiss it in drouth | F |
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| It has no breath | F |
| Nor any relaxing Where | C |
| Where are you what have you done | G |
| What is this mouth of stone | I |
| How did you dare | C |
| Take cover in death | F |
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| II | - |
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| Once you could see | E |
| The white moon show like a breast revealed | J |
| By the slipping shawl of stars | K |
| Could see the small stars tremble | L |
| As the heart beneath did wield | J |
| Systole diastole | E |
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| All the lovely macrocosm | E |
| Was woman once to you | M |
| Bride to your groom | E |
| No tree in bloom | E |
| But it leaned you a new | M |
| White bosom | E |
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| And always and ever | C |
| Soft as a summering tree | E |
| Unfolds from the sky for your good | N |
| Unfolded womanhood | N |
| Shedding you down as a tree | E |
| Sheds its flowers on a river | C |
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| I saw your brows | O |
| Set like rocks beside a sea of gloom | E |
| And I shed my very soul down into your thought | P |
| Like flowers I fell to be caught | Q |
| On the comforted pool like bloom | E |
| That leaves the boughs | O |
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| III | - |
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| Oh masquerader | C |
| With a hard face white enamelled | Q |
| What are you now | R |
| Do you care no longer how | R |
| My heart is trammelled | Q |
| Evader | C |
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| Is this you after all | S |
| Metallic obdurate | Q |
| With bowels of steel | T |
| Did you never feel | T |
| Cold insensate | Q |
| Mechanical | L |
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| Ah no you multiform | E |
| You that I loved you wonderful | L |
| You who darkened and shone | I |
| You were many men in one | G |
| But never this null | L |
| This never warm | E |
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| Is this the sum of you | M |
| Is it all nought | Q |
| Cold metal cold | Q |
| Are you all told | Q |
| Here iron wrought | Q |
| Is this what's become of you | M |
D. H. Lawrence
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