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 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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