Under The Oak Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CDED CFGH DIJI KJKJ DDDD| You if you were sensible | A |
| When I tell you the stars flash signals each one dreadful | A |
| You would not turn and answer me | B |
| The night is wonderful | A |
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| Even you if you knew | C |
| How this darkness soaks me through and through and infuses | D |
| Unholy fear in my vapour you would pause to distinguish | E |
| What hurts from what amuses | D |
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| For I tell you | C |
| Beneath this powerful tree my whole soul's fluid | F |
| Oozes away from me as a sacrifice steam | G |
| At the knife of a Druid | H |
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| Again I tell you I bleed I am bound with withies | D |
| My life runs out | I |
| I tell you my blood runs out on the floor of this oak | J |
| Gout upon gout | I |
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| Above me springs the blood born mistletoe | K |
| In the shady smoke | J |
| But who are you twittering to and fro | K |
| Beneath the oak | J |
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| What thing better are you what worse | D |
| What have you to do with the mysteries | D |
| Of this ancient place of my ancient curse | D |
| What place have you in my histories | D |
D. H. Lawrence
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