Snap-dragon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEGG HIHIJJ GGKLKL MGMGMMNNOBOB BPPQQRQS TGTUG VWVWTTT XTXTXGTGTTGTGT YGYTGGTHHQ TZTZA2A2 B2C2B2C2D2D2 E2A2E2A2F2F2 TXTXXX G2TG2TT H2I2H2I2JJShe bade me follow to her garden where | A |
The mellow sunlight stood as in a cup | B |
Between the old grey walls I did not dare | A |
To raise my face I did not dare look up | B |
Lest her bright eyes like sparrows should fly in | C |
My windows of discovery and shrill Sin | C |
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So with a downcast mien and laughing voice | D |
I followed followed the swing of her white dress | E |
That rocked in a lilt along I watched the poise | F |
Of her feet as they flew for a space then paused to press | E |
The grass deep down with the royal burden of her | G |
And gladly I'd offered my breast to the tread of her | G |
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I like to see she said and she crouched her down | H |
She sunk into my sight like a settling bird | I |
And her bosom couched in the confines of her gown | H |
Like heavy birds at rest there softly stirred | I |
By her measured breaths I like to see said she | J |
The snap dragon put out his tongue at me | J |
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She laughed she reached her hand out to the flower | G |
Closing its crimson throat My own throat in her power | G |
Strangled my heart swelled up so full | K |
As if it would burst its wine skin in my throat | L |
Choke me in my own crimson I watched her pull | K |
The gorge of the gaping flower till the blood did float | L |
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Over my eyes and I was blind | M |
Her large brown hand stretched over | G |
The windows of my mind | M |
And there in the dark I did discover | G |
Things I was out to find | M |
My Grail a brown bowl twined | M |
With swollen veins that met in the wrist | N |
Under whose brown the amethyst | N |
I longed to taste I longed to turn | O |
My heart's red measure in her cup | B |
I longed to feel my hot blood burn | O |
With the amethyst in her cup | B |
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Then suddenly she looked up | B |
And I was blind in a tawny gold day | P |
Till she took her eyes away | P |
So she came down from above | Q |
And emptied my heart of love | Q |
So I held my heart aloft | R |
To the cuckoo that hung like a dove | Q |
And she settled soft | S |
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It seemed that I and the morning world | T |
Were pressed cup shape to take this reiver | G |
Bird who was weary to have furled | T |
Her wings in us | U |
As we were weary to receive her | G |
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This bird this rich | V |
Sumptuous central grain | W |
This mutable witch | V |
This one refrain | W |
This laugh in the fight | T |
This clot of night | T |
This core of delight | T |
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She spoke and I closed my eyes | X |
To shut hallucinations out | T |
I echoed with surprise | X |
Hearing my mere lips shout | T |
The answer they did devise | X |
Again I saw a brown bird hover | G |
Over the flowers at my feet | T |
I felt a brown bird hover | G |
Over my heart and sweet | T |
Its shadow lay on my heart | T |
I thought I saw on the clover | G |
A brown bee pulling apart | T |
The closed flesh of the clover | G |
And burrowing in its heart | T |
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She moved her hand and again | Y |
I felt the brown bird cover | G |
My heart and then | Y |
The bird came down on my heart | T |
As on a nest the rover | G |
Cuckoo comes and shoves over | G |
The brim each careful part | T |
Of love takes possession and settles her down | H |
With her wings and her feathers to drown | H |
The nest in a heat of love | Q |
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She turned her flushed face to me for the glint | T |
Of a moment See she laughed if you also | Z |
Can make them yawn I put my hand to the dint | T |
In the flower's throat and the flower gaped wide with woe | Z |
She watched she went of a sudden intensely still | A2 |
She watched my hand to see what I would fulfil | A2 |
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I pressed the wretched throttled flower between | B2 |
My fingers till its head lay back its fangs | C2 |
Poised at her Like a weapon my hand was white and keen | B2 |
And I held the choked flower serpent in its pangs | C2 |
Of mordant anguish till she ceased to laugh | D2 |
Until her pride's flag smitten cleaved down to the staff | D2 |
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She hid her face she murmured between her lips | E2 |
The low word Don't I let the flower fall | A2 |
But held my hand afloat towards the slips | E2 |
Of blossom she fingered and my fingers all | A2 |
Put forth to her she did not move nor I | F2 |
For my hand like a snake watched hers that could not fly | F2 |
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Then I laughed in the dark of my heart I did exult | T |
Like a sudden chuckling of music I bade her eyes | X |
Meet mine I opened her helpless eyes to consult | T |
Their fear their shame their joy that underlies | X |
Defeat in such a battle In the dark of her eyes | X |
My heart was fierce to make her laughter rise | X |
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Till her dark deeps shook with convulsive thrills and the dark | G2 |
Of her spirit wavered like water thrilled with light | T |
And my heart leaped up in longing to plunge its stark | G2 |
Fervour within the pool of her twilight | T |
Within her spacious soul to grope in delight | T |
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And I do not care though the large hands of revenge | H2 |
Shall get my throat at last shall get it soon | I2 |
If the joy that they are searching to avenge | H2 |
Have risen red on my night as a harvest moon | I2 |
Which even death can only put out for me | J |
And death I know is better than not to be | J |
D. H. Lawrence
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