Last Words To Miriam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACB DEDCE FGFHG IJIIJ IJIKJ LMLKM NONIO| Yours is the shame and sorrow | A |
| But the disgrace is mine | B |
| Your love was dark and thorough | A |
| Mine was the love of the sun for a flower | C |
| He creates with his shine | B |
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| I was diligent to explore you | D |
| Blossom you stalk by stalk | E |
| Till my fire of creation bore you | D |
| Shrivelling down in the final dour | C |
| Anguish then I suffered a balk | E |
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| I knew your pain and it broke | F |
| My fine craftsman's nerve | G |
| Your body quailed at my stroke | F |
| And my courage failed to give you the last | H |
| Fine torture you did deserve | G |
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| You are shapely you are adorned | I |
| But opaque and dull in the flesh | J |
| Who had I but pierced with the thorned | I |
| Fire threshing anguish were fused and cast | I |
| In a lovely illumined mesh | J |
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| Like a painted window the best | I |
| Suffering burnt through your flesh | J |
| Undrossed it and left it blest | I |
| With a quivering sweet wisdom of grace but now | K |
| Who shall take you afresh | J |
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| Now who will burn you free | L |
| From your body's terrors and dross | M |
| Since the fire has failed in me | L |
| What man will stoop in your flesh to plough | K |
| The shrieking cross | M |
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| A mute nearly beautiful thing | N |
| Is your face that fills me with shame | O |
| As I see it hardening | N |
| Warping the perfect image of God | I |
| And darkening my eternal fame | O |
David Herbert Lawrence
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