Snap-dragon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEGG HIHIJJ GGKLKL MGMGMMNNOBOB BPPQQRQS TGTUG VWVWTTT XTXTXGTGTTGTGT YGYTGGTHHQ TZTZA2A2 B2C2B2C2D2D2 E2A2E2A2F2F2 TXTXXX G2TG2TT H2I2H2I2JJ

She bade me follow to her garden whereA
The mellow sunlight stood as in a cupB
Between the old grey walls I did not dareA
To raise my face I did not dare look upB
Lest her bright eyes like sparrows should fly inC
My windows of discovery and shrill SinC
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So with a downcast mien and laughing voiceD
I followed followed the swing of her white dressE
That rocked in a lilt along I watched the poiseF
Of her feet as they flew for a space then paused to pressE
The grass deep down with the royal burden of herG
And gladly I'd offered my breast to the tread of herG
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I like to see she said and she crouched her downH
She sunk into my sight like a settling birdI
And her bosom couched in the confines of her gownH
Like heavy birds at rest there softly stirredI
By her measured breaths I like to see said sheJ
The snap dragon put out his tongue at meJ
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She laughed she reached her hand out to the flowerG
Closing its crimson throat My own throat in her powerG
Strangled my heart swelled up so fullK
As if it would burst its wine skin in my throatL
Choke me in my own crimson I watched her pullK
The gorge of the gaping flower till the blood did floatL
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Over my eyes and I was blindM
Her large brown hand stretched overG
The windows of my mindM
And there in the dark I did discoverG
Things I was out to findM
My Grail a brown bowl twinedM
With swollen veins that met in the wristN
Under whose brown the amethystN
I longed to taste I longed to turnO
My heart's red measure in her cupB
I longed to feel my hot blood burnO
With the amethyst in her cupB
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Then suddenly she looked upB
And I was blind in a tawny gold dayP
Till she took her eyes awayP
So she came down from aboveQ
And emptied my heart of loveQ
So I held my heart aloftR
To the cuckoo that hung like a doveQ
And she settled softS
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It seemed that I and the morning worldT
Were pressed cup shape to take this reiverG
Bird who was weary to have furledT
Her wings in usU
As we were weary to receive herG
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This bird this richV
Sumptuous central grainW
This mutable witchV
This one refrainW
This laugh in the fightT
This clot of nightT
This core of delightT
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She spoke and I closed my eyesX
To shut hallucinations outT
I echoed with surpriseX
Hearing my mere lips shoutT
The answer they did deviseX
Again I saw a brown bird hoverG
Over the flowers at my feetT
I felt a brown bird hoverG
Over my heart and sweetT
Its shadow lay on my heartT
I thought I saw on the cloverG
A brown bee pulling apartT
The closed flesh of the cloverG
And burrowing in its heartT
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She moved her hand and againY
I felt the brown bird coverG
My heart and thenY
The bird came down on my heartT
As on a nest the roverG
Cuckoo comes and shoves overG
The brim each careful partT
Of love takes possession and settles her downH
With her wings and her feathers to drownH
The nest in a heat of loveQ
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She turned her flushed face to me for the glintT
Of a moment See she laughed if you alsoZ
Can make them yawn I put my hand to the dintT
In the flower's throat and the flower gaped wide with woeZ
She watched she went of a sudden intensely stillA2
She watched my hand to see what I would fulfilA2
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I pressed the wretched throttled flower betweenB2
My fingers till its head lay back its fangsC2
Poised at her Like a weapon my hand was white and keenB2
And I held the choked flower serpent in its pangsC2
Of mordant anguish till she ceased to laughD2
Until her pride's flag smitten cleaved down to the staffD2
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She hid her face she murmured between her lipsE2
The low word Don't I let the flower fallA2
But held my hand afloat towards the slipsE2
Of blossom she fingered and my fingers allA2
Put forth to her she did not move nor IF2
For my hand like a snake watched hers that could not flyF2
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Then I laughed in the dark of my heart I did exultT
Like a sudden chuckling of music I bade her eyesX
Meet mine I opened her helpless eyes to consultT
Their fear their shame their joy that underliesX
Defeat in such a battle In the dark of her eyesX
My heart was fierce to make her laughter riseX
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Till her dark deeps shook with convulsive thrills and the darkG2
Of her spirit wavered like water thrilled with lightT
And my heart leaped up in longing to plunge its starkG2
Fervour within the pool of her twilightT
Within her spacious soul to grope in delightT
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And I do not care though the large hands of revengeH2
Shall get my throat at last shall get it soonI2
If the joy that they are searching to avengeH2
Have risen red on my night as a harvest moonI2
Which even death can only put out for meJ
And death I know is better than not to beJ

D. H. Lawrence



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