Scent Of Irises Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCB DEFEDG HIDIJI KLMLNL OBEBLE PQRSQRA faint sickening scent of irises | A |
Persists all morning Here in a jar on the table | B |
A fine proud spike of purple irises | A |
Rising above the class room litter makes me unable | B |
To see the class s lifted and bended faces | C |
Save in a broken pattern amid purple and gold and sable | B |
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I can smell the gorgeous bog end in its breathless | D |
Dazzle of may blobs when the marigold glare overcast you | E |
With fire on your cheeks and your brow and your chin as you dipped | F |
Your face in the marigold bunch to touch and contrast you | E |
Your own dark mouth with the bridal faint lady smocks | D |
Dissolved on the golden sorcery you should not outlast | G |
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You amid the bog end s yellow incantation | H |
You sitting in the cowslips of the meadow above | I |
Me your shadow on the bog flame flowery may blobs | D |
Me full length in the cowslips muttering you love | I |
You your soul like a lady smock lost evanescent | J |
You with your face all rich like the sheen of a dove | I |
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You are always asking do I remember remember | K |
The butter cup bog end where the flowers rose up | L |
And kindled you over deep with a cast of gold | M |
You ask again do the healing days close up | L |
The open darkness which then drew us in | N |
The dark which then drank up our brimming cup | L |
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You upon the dry dead beech leaves in the fire of night | O |
Burnt like a sacrifice you invisible | B |
Only the fire of darkness and the scent of you | E |
And yes thank God it still is possible | B |
The healing days shall close the darkness up | L |
Wherein we fainted like a smoke or dew | E |
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Like vapour dew or poison Now thank God | P |
The fire of night is gone and your face is ash | Q |
Indistinguishable on the grey chill day | R |
The night had burst us out at last the good | S |
Dark fire burns on untroubled without clash | Q |
Of you upon the dead leaves saying me Yea | R |
David Herbert Lawrence
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