Reproach Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBACDEF GHIHGIJKL JKLMMJLJ| Had I but known yesterday | A |
| Helen you could discharge the ache | B |
| Out of the cloud | C |
| Had I known yesterday you could take | B |
| The turgid electric ache away | A |
| Drink it up with your proud | C |
| White body as lovely white lightning | D |
| Is drunk from an agonised sky by the earth | E |
| I might have hated you Helen | F |
| - | |
| But since my limbs gushed full of fire | G |
| Since from out of my blood and bone | H |
| Poured a heavy flame | I |
| To you earth of my atmosphere stone | H |
| Of my steel lovely white flint of desire | G |
| You have no name | I |
| Earth of my swaying atmosphere | J |
| Substance of my inconstant breath | K |
| I cannot but cleave to you | L |
| - | |
| Since you have drunken up the drear | J |
| Painful electric storm and death | K |
| Is washed from the blue | L |
| Of my eyes I see you beautiful | M |
| You are strong and passive and beautiful | M |
| I come like winds that uncertain hover | J |
| But you | L |
| Are the earth I hover over | J |
David Herbert Lawrence
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