Seven Seals Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEDEFGFB HIJKLMLN OPOOQ PRHRS TUTBUV VWXWXVVBB| Since this is the last night I keep you home | A |
| Come I will consecrate you for the journey | B |
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| Rather I had you would not go Nay come | C |
| I will not again reproach you Lie back | D |
| And let me love you a long time ere you go | E |
| For you are sullen hearted still and lack | D |
| The will to love me But even so | E |
| I will set a seal upon you from my lip | F |
| Will set a guard of honour at each door | G |
| Seal up each channel out of which might slip | F |
| Your love for me | B |
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| I kiss your mouth Ah love | H |
| Could I but seal its ruddy shining spring | I |
| Of passion parch it up destroy remove | J |
| Its softly stirring crimson welling up | K |
| Of kisses Oh help me God Here at the source | L |
| I'd lie for ever drinking and drawing in | M |
| Your fountains as heaven drinks from out their course | L |
| The floods | N |
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| I close your ears with kisses | O |
| And seal your nostrils and round your neck you'll wear | P |
| Nay let me work a delicate chain of kisses | O |
| Like beads they go around and not one misses | O |
| To touch its fellow on either side | Q |
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| And there | P |
| Full mid between the champaign of your breast | R |
| I place a great and burning seal of love | H |
| Like a dark rose a mystery of rest | R |
| On the slow bubbling of your rhythmic heart | S |
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| Nay I persist and very faith shall keep | T |
| You integral to me Each door each mystic port | U |
| Of egress from you I will seal and steep | T |
| In perfect chrism | B |
| Now it is done The mort | U |
| Will sound in heaven before it is undone | V |
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| But let me finish what I have begun | V |
| And shirt you now invulnerable in the mail | W |
| Of iron kisses kisses linked like steel | X |
| Put greaves upon your thighs and knees and frail | W |
| Webbing of steel on your feet So you shall feel | X |
| Ensheathed invulnerable with me with seven | V |
| Great seals upon your outgoings and woven | V |
| Chain of my mystic will wrapped perfectly | B |
| Upon you wrapped in indomitable me | B |
D. H. Lawrence
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