The Punisher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DED FGF HIH GJG GKG LML| I have fetched the tears up out of the little wells | A |
| Scooped them up with small iron words | B |
| Dripping over the runnels | C |
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| The harsh cold wind of my words drove on and still | D |
| I watched the tears on the guilty cheek of the boys | E |
| Glitter and spill | D |
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| Cringing Pity and Love white handed came | F |
| Hovering about the Judgment which stood in my eyes | G |
| Whirling a flame | F |
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| The tears are dry and the cheeks' young fruits are fresh | H |
| With laughter and clear the exonerated eyes since pain | I |
| Beat through the flesh | H |
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| The Angel of Judgment has departed again to the Nearness | G |
| Desolate I am as a church whose lights are put out | J |
| And night enters in drearness | G |
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| The fire rose up in the bush and blazed apace | G |
| The thorn leaves crackled and twisted and sweated in anguish | K |
| Then God left the place | G |
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| Like a flower that the frost has hugged and let go my head | L |
| Is heavy and my heart beats slowly laboriously | M |
| My strength is shed | L |
D. H. Lawrence
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