The Piano (notebook Version) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIII| Somewhere beneath that piano's superb sleek black | A |
| Must hide my mother's piano little and brown with the back | A |
| That stood close to the wall and the front's faded silk both torn | B |
| And the keys with little hollows that my mother's fingers had worn | B |
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| Softly in the shadows a woman is singing to me | C |
| Quietly through the years I have crept back to see | C |
| A child sitting under the piano in the boom of the shaking strings | D |
| Pressing the little poised feet of the mother who smiles as she sings | D |
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| The full throated woman has chosen a winning living song | E |
| And surely the heart that is in me must belong | E |
| To the old Sunday evenings when darkness wandered outside | F |
| And hymns gleamed on our warm lips as we watched mother's fingers glide | F |
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| Or this is my sister at home in the old front room | G |
| Singing love's first surprised gladness alone in the gloom | G |
| She will start when she sees me and blushing spread out her hands | H |
| To cover my mouth's raillery till I'm bound in her shame's heart spun bands | H |
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| A woman is singing me a wild Hungarian air | I |
| And her arms and her bosom and the whole of her soul is bare | I |
| And the great black piano is clamouring as my mother's never could clamour | I |
| And the tunes of the past are devoured of this music's ravaging glamour | I |
D. H. Lawrence
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