Embankment At Night, Before The War: Charity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE A ABCDE F EGHIJ K EGHIJ L| By the river | A |
| In the black wet night as the furtive rain slinks down | B |
| Dropping and starting from sleep | C |
| Alone on a seat | D |
| A woman crouches | E |
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| I must go back to her | A |
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| I want to give her | A |
| Some money Her hand slips out of the breast of her gown | B |
| Asleep My fingers creep | C |
| Carefully over the sweet | D |
| Thumb mound into the palm's deep pouches | E |
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| So the gift | F |
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| God how she starts | E |
| And looks at me and looks in the palm of her hand | G |
| And again at me | H |
| I turn and run | I |
| Down the Embankment run for my life | J |
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| But why why | K |
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| Because of my heart's | E |
| Beating like sobs I come to myself and stand | G |
| In the street spilled over splendidly | H |
| With wet flat lights What I've done | I |
| I know not my soul is in strife | J |
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| The touch was on the quick I want to forget | L |
D. H. Lawrence
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