Snap-dragon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFGFHH IJIJK HHLMLM NHNHN NOOPBPB BQRRSRT UHUVH WXWXUUU YUYUY HUHUUHUHU ZHZUHHUIIR UA2UA2B2B2 C2D2C2D2E2E2 F2G2F2G2H2H2UYUYYYI2 UI2UHH J2K2J2K2HH

She bade me follow to her garden whereA
The mellow sunlight stood as in a cupB
Between the old grey walls I did not dareA
To raise my face I did not dare look upB
Lest her bright eyes like sparrows should fly inC
My windows of discovery and shrill 'Sin 'D
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So with a downcast mien and laughing voiceE
I followed followed the swing of her white dressF
That rocked in a lilt along I watched the poiseG
Of her feet as they flew for a space then paused to pressF
The grass deep down with the royal burden of herH
And gladly I'd offered my breast to the tread of herH
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'I like to see ' she said and she crouched her downI
She sunk into my sight like a settling birdJ
And her bosom crouched in the confines of her gownI
Like heavy birds at rest there softly stirredJ
By her measured breaths 'I like to see ' said sheK
'The snap dragon put out his tongue at me '-
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She laughed she reached her hand out to the flowerH
Closing its crimson throat my own throat in her powerH
Strangled my heart swelled up so fullL
As if it would burst its wineskin in my throatM
Choke me in my own crimson I watched her pullL
The gorge of the gaping flower till the blood did floatM
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Over my eyes and I was blindN
Her large brown hand stretched overH
The windows of my mindN
And in the dark I did discoverH
Things I was out to findN
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My grail a brown bowl twinedN
With swollen veins that met in the wristO
Under whose brown the amethystO
I longed to taste and I longed to turnP
My heart's red measure in her cupB
I longed to feel my hot blood burnP
With the lambent amethyst in her cupB
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Then suddenly she looked upB
And I was blind in a tawny gold dayQ
Till she took her eyes away So she came down from aboveR
And emptied my heart of loveR
So I helf my heart aloftS
To the cuckoo that fluttered aboveR
And she settled softT
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It seemed that I and the morning worldU
Were pressed cup shape to take this reiverH
Bird who was weary to have furledU
Her wings on usV
As we were weary to receive herH
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This bird this richW
Sumptuous central grainX
This mutable witchW
This one refrainX
This laugh in the fightU
This clot of lightU
This core of nightU
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She spoke and I closed my eyesY
To shut hallucinations outU
I echoed with surpriseY
Hearing my mere lips shoutU
The answer they did deviseY
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Again I saw a brown bird hoverH
Over the flowers at my feetU
I felt a brown bird hoverH
Over my heart and sweetU
Its shadow lay on my heartU
I thought I saw on the cloverH
A brown bee pulling apartU
The closed flesh of the cloverH
And burrowing into its heartU
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She moved her hand and againZ
I felt the brown bird hoverH
Over my heart and thenZ
The bird came down on my heartU
As on a nest the roverH
Cuckoo comes and shoves overH
The brim each careful partU
Of love takes possession and settles downI
With her wings and her feathers does drownI
The nest in a heat of loveR
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She turned her flushed face to me for the glintU
Of a moment 'See ' she laughed 'if you alsoA2
Can make them yawn ' I put my hand to the dintU
In the flower's throat and the flower gaped wide with woeA2
She watched she went of a sudden intensely stillB2
She watched my hand and I let her watch her fillB2
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I pressed the wretched throttled flower betweenC2
My fingers till its head lay back its fangsD2
Poised at her like a weapon my hand stood white and keenC2
And I held the choked flower serpent in its pangsD2
Of mordant anguish till she ceased to laughE2
Until her pride's flag smitten cleaved down to the staffE2
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She hid her face she murmured between her lipsF2
The low word 'Don't ' I let the flower fallG2
But held my hand afloat still towards the slipsF2
Of blossom she fingered and my crisp fingers allG2
Put forth to her she did not move nor IH2
For my hand like a snake watched hers that could not flyH2
Then I laughed in the dark of my heart I did exultU
Like a sudden chuckling of music I bade her eyesY
Meet mine I opened her helpless eyes to consultU
Their fear their shame their joy that underliesY
Defeat in such a battle in the dark of her eyesY
My heart was fierce to make her laughter riseY
Till her dark deeps shook with convulsive thrills and the darkI2
Of her spirit wavered like water thrilled with lightU
And my heart leaped up in longing to plunge its starkI2
Fervour within the pool of her twilightU
Within her spacious gloom in the mysteryH
Of her barbarous soul to grope with ecstasyH
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And I do not care though the large hands of revengeJ2
Shall get my throat at last shall get it soonK2
If the joy that they are lifted to avengeJ2
Have risen red on my night as a harvest moonK2
Which even Death can only put out for meH
And death I know is beter than not to beH

David Herbert Lawrence



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