Monologue Of A Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABC BDEBDE FDGHDG IJKIJK LMNLMN OPDQPDR EREBB| This is the last of all this is the last | A |
| I must hold my hands and turn my face to the fire | B |
| I must watch my dead days fusing together in dross | C |
| Shape after shape and scene after scene from my past | A |
| Fusing to one dead mass in the sinking fire | B |
| Where the ash on the dying coals grows swiftly like heavy moss | C |
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| Strange he is my son whom I have awaited like a loyer | B |
| Strange to me like a captive in a foreign country haunting | D |
| The confines and gazing out on the land where the wind is free | E |
| White and gaunt with wistful eyes that hover | B |
| Always on the distance as if his soul were chaunting | D |
| The monotonous weird of departure away from me | E |
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| Like a strange white bird blown out of the frozen seas | F |
| Like a bird from the far north blown with a broken wing | D |
| Into our sooty garden he drags and beats | G |
| From place to place perpetually seeking release | H |
| From me from the hand of my love which creeps up needing | D |
| His happiness whilst he in displeasure retreats | G |
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| I must look away from him for my faded eyes | I |
| Like a cringing dog at his heels offend him now | J |
| Like a toothless hound pursuing him with my will | K |
| Till he chafes at my crouching persistence and a sharp spark flies | I |
| In my soul from under the sudden frown of his brow | J |
| As he blenches and turns away and my heart stands still | K |
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| This is the last it will not be any more | L |
| All my life I have borne the burden of myself | M |
| All the long years of sitting in my husband s house | N |
| Never have I said to myself as he closed the door | L |
| Now I am caught You are hopelessly lost O Self | M |
| You are frightened with joy my heart like a frightened mouse | N |
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| Three times have I offered myself three times rejected | O |
| It will not be any more No more my son my son | P |
| Never to know the glad freedom of obedience since long ago | D |
| The angel of childhood kissed me and went I expected | Q |
| Another would take me and now my son O my son | P |
| I must sit awhile and wait and never know | D |
| The loss of myself till death comes who cannot fail | R |
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| Death in whose service is nothing of gladness takes me | E |
| For the lips and the eyes of God are behind a veil | R |
| And the thought of the lipless voice of the Father shakes me | E |
| With fear and fills my eyes with the tears of desire | B |
| And my heart rebels with anguish as night draws nigher | B |
David Herbert Lawrence
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