Excursion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCB CCCDEED CCCDFFD GGGHCCI JJJKLLK MMMNHHN| I wonder can the night go by | A |
| Can this shot arrow of travel fly | A |
| Shaft golden with light sheer into the sky | A |
| Of a dawned to morrow | B |
| Without ever sleep delivering us | C |
| From each other or loosing the dolorous | C |
| Unfruitful sorrow | B |
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| What is it then that you can see | C |
| That at the window endlessly | C |
| You watch the red sparks whirl and flee | C |
| And the night look through | D |
| Your presence peering lonelily there | E |
| Oppresses me so I can hardly bear | E |
| To share the train with you | D |
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| You hurt my heart beats' privacy | C |
| I wish I could put you away from me | C |
| I suffocate in this intimacy | C |
| For all that I love you | D |
| How I have longed for this night in the train | F |
| Yet now every fibre of me cries in pain | F |
| To God to remove you | D |
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| But surely my soul's best dream is still | G |
| That one night pouring down shall swill | G |
| Us away in an utter sleep until | G |
| We are one smooth rounded | H |
| Yet closely bitten in to me | C |
| Is this armour of stiff reluctancy | C |
| That keeps me impounded | I |
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| So dear love when another night | J |
| Pours on us lift your fingers white | J |
| And strip me naked touch me light | J |
| Light light all over | K |
| For I ache most earnestly for your touch | L |
| Yet I cannot move however much | L |
| I would be your lover | K |
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| Night after night with a blemish of day | M |
| Unblown and unblossomed has withered away | M |
| Come another night come a new night say | M |
| Will you pluck me apart | N |
| Will you open the amorous aching bud | H |
| Of my body and loose the burning flood | H |
| That would leap to you from my heart | N |
D. H. Lawrence
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