Phantasmagoria Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DADA EFFF GHIH HGDG JKLK DLDL| Rigid sleeps the house in darkness I alone | A |
| Like a thing unwarrantable cross the hall | B |
| And climb the stairs to find the group of doors | C |
| Standing angel stern and tall | B |
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| I want my own room's shelter But what is this | D |
| Throng of startled beings suddenly thrown | A |
| In confusion against my entry Is it only the trees' | D |
| Large shadows from the outside street lamp blown | A |
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| Phantom to phantom leaning strange women weep | E |
| Aloud suddenly on my mind | F |
| Startling a fear unspeakable as the shuddering wind | F |
| Breaks and sobs in the blind | F |
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| So like to women tall strange women weeping | G |
| Why continually do they cross the bed | H |
| Why does my soul contract with unnatural fear | I |
| I am listening Is anything said | H |
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| Ever the long black figures swoop by the bed | H |
| They seem to be beckoning rushing away and beckoning | G |
| Whither then whither what is it say | D |
| What is the reckoning | G |
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| Tall black Bacchae of midnight why then why | J |
| Do you rush to assail me | K |
| Do I intrude on your rites nocturnal | L |
| What should it avail me | K |
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| Is there some great Iacchos of these slopes | D |
| Suburban dismal | L |
| Have I profaned some female mystery orgies | D |
| Black and phantasmal | L |
D. H. Lawrence
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