Intime Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA ABBCCDDEFFGGHHIIEEEJ KKKKK KALALIMIM AAAAANOOAPQ RRSS| Returning I find her just the same | A |
| At just the same old delicate game | A |
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| Still she says Nay loose no flame | A |
| To lick me up and do me harm | B |
| Be all yourself for oh the charm | B |
| Of your heart of fire in which I look | C |
| Oh better there than in any book | C |
| Glow and enact the dramas and dreams | D |
| I love for ever there it seems | D |
| You are lovelier than life itself till desire | E |
| Comes licking through the bars of your lips | F |
| And over my face the stray fire slips | F |
| Leaving a burn and an ugly smart | G |
| That will have the oil of illusion Oh heart | G |
| Of fire and beauty loose no more | H |
| Your reptile flames of lust ah store | H |
| Your passion in the basket of your soul | I |
| Be all yourself one bonny burning coal | I |
| That stays with steady joy of its own fire | E |
| But do not seek to take me by desire | E |
| Oh do not seek to thrust on me your fire | E |
| For in the firing all my porcelain | J |
| Of flesh does crackle and shiver and break in pain | K |
| My ivory and marble black with stain | K |
| My veil of sensitive mystery rent in twain | K |
| My altars sullied I bereft remain | K |
| A priestess execrable taken in vain | K |
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| So the refrain | K |
| Sings itself over and so the game | A |
| Re starts itself wherein I am kept | L |
| Like a glowing brazier faintly blue of flame | A |
| So that the delicate love adept | L |
| Can warm her hands and invite her soul | I |
| Sprinkling incense and salt of words | M |
| And kisses pale and sipping the toll | I |
| Of incense smoke that rises like birds | M |
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| Yet I've forgotten in playing this game | A |
| Things I have known that shall have no name | A |
| Forgetting the place from which I came | A |
| I watch her ward away the flame | A |
| Yet warm herself at the fire then blame | A |
| Me that I flicker in the basket | N |
| Me that I glow not with content | O |
| To have my substance so subtly spent | O |
| Me that I interrupt her game | A |
| I ought to be proud that she should ask it | P |
| Of me to be her fire opal | Q |
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| It is well | R |
| Since I am here for so short a spell | R |
| Not to interrupt her Why should I | S |
| Break in by making any reply | S |
D. H. Lawrence
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