Brother And Sister Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBC DEFGEG HIHJIJ KLKLMM NOPOGG| The shorn moon trembling indistinct on her path | A |
| Frail as a scar upon the pale blue sky | B |
| Draws towards the downward slope some sorrow hath | A |
| Worn her down to the quick so she faintly fares | C |
| Along her foot searched way without knowing why | B |
| She creeps persistent down the sky s long stairs | C |
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| Some day they see though I have never seen | D |
| The dead moon heaped within the new moon s arms | E |
| For surely the fragile fine young thing had been | F |
| Too heavily burdened to mount the heavens so | G |
| But my heart stands still as a new strong dread alarms | E |
| Me might a young girl be heaped with such shadow of woe | G |
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| Since Death from the mother moon has pared us down to the quick | H |
| And cast us forth like shorn thin moons to travel | I |
| An uncharted way among the myriad thick | H |
| Strewn stars of silent people and luminous litter | J |
| Of lives which sorrows like mischievous dark mice chavel | I |
| To nought diminishing each star s glitter | J |
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| Since Death has delivered us utterly naked and white | K |
| Since the month of childhood is over and we stand alone | L |
| Since the beloved faded moon that set us alight | K |
| Is delivered from us and pays no heed though we moan | L |
| In sorrow since we stand in bewilderment strange | M |
| And fearful to sally forth down the sky s long range | M |
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| We may not cry to her still to sustain us here | N |
| We may not hold her shadow back from the dark | O |
| Oh let us here forget let us take the sheer | P |
| Unknown that lies before us bearing the ark | O |
| Of the covenant onwards where she cannot go | G |
| Let us rise and leave her now she will never know | G |
David Herbert Lawrence
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