Bavarian Gentians Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACDEADFGEHIAIBJBK BLA BCDE| Not every man has gentians in his house | A |
| in Soft September at slow Sad Michaelmas | A |
| Bavarian gentians big and dark only dark | B |
| darkening the daytime torchlike with the smoking blueness of Pluto's | A |
| gloom | C |
| ribbed and torchlike with their blaze of darkness spread blue | D |
| down flattening into points flattened under the sweep of white day | E |
| torch flower of the blue smoking darkness Pluto's dark blue daze | A |
| black lamps from the halls of Dis burning dark blue | D |
| giving off darkness blue darkness as Demeter's pale lamps give off | F |
| light | G |
| lead me then lead me the way | E |
| Reach me a gentian give me a torch | H |
| Let me guide myself with the blue forked torch of a flower | I |
| down the darker and darker stairs where blue is darkened on blueness | A |
| down the way Persephone goes just now in first frosted September | I |
| to the sightless realm where darkness is married to dark | B |
| and Persephone herself is but a voice as a bride | J |
| a gloom invisible enfolded in the deeper dark | B |
| of the arms of Pluto as he ravishes her once again | K |
| and pierces her once more with his passion of the utter dark | B |
| among the splendour of black blue torches shedding | L |
| fathomless darkness on the nuptials | A |
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| Bavarian gentians tall and dark but dark | B |
| darkening the daytime torch like with the smoking blueness of Pluto's gloom | C |
| ribbed hellish flowers erect with their blaze of darkness spread blue | D |
| blown flat into points by the heavy white draught of the day | E |
David Herbert Lawrence
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