Tarantella Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABC ABDEBD FGHFGHSad as he sits on the white sea stone | A |
And the suave sea chuckles and turns to the moon | B |
And the moon significant smiles at the cliffs and the boulders | C |
He sits like a shade by the flood alone | A |
While I dance a tarantella on the rocks and the croon | B |
Of my mockery mocks at him over the waves' bright shoulders | C |
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What can I do but dance alone | A |
Dance to the sliding sea and the moon | B |
For the moon on my breast and the air on my limbs and the foam on my feet | D |
For surely this earnest man has none | E |
Of the night in his soul and none of the tune | B |
Of the waters within him only the world's old wisdom to bleat | D |
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I wish a wild sea fellow would come down the glittering shingle | F |
A soulless neckar with winking seas in his eyes | G |
And falling waves in his arms and the lost soul's kiss | H |
On his lips I long to be soulless I tingle | F |
To touch the sea in the last surprise | G |
Of fiery coldness to be gone in a lost soul's bliss | H |
D. H. Lawrence
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