The Inheritance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADC EFGEFG HIJHKJ LMNLME OJOPQP RSTRSU| Since you did depart | A |
| Out of my reach my darling | B |
| Into the hidden | C |
| I see each shadow start | A |
| With recognition and I | D |
| Am wonder ridden | C |
| - | |
| I am dazed with the farewell | E |
| But I scarcely feel your loss | F |
| You left me a gift | G |
| Of tongues so the shadows tell | E |
| Me things and silences toss | F |
| Me their drift | G |
| - | |
| You sent me a cloven fire | H |
| Out of death and it burns in the draught | I |
| Of the breathing hosts | J |
| Kindles the darkening pyre | H |
| For the sorrowful till strange brands waft | K |
| Like candid ghosts | J |
| - | |
| Form after form in the streets | L |
| Waves like a ghost along | M |
| Kindled to me | N |
| The star above the house top greets | L |
| Me every eve with a long | M |
| Song fierily | E |
| - | |
| All day long the town | O |
| Glimmers with subtle ghosts | J |
| Going up and down | O |
| In a common prison like dress | P |
| But their daunted looking flickers | Q |
| To me and I answer Yes | P |
| - | |
| So I am not lonely nor sad | R |
| Although bereaved of you | S |
| My little love | T |
| I move among a kinsfolk clad | R |
| With words but the dream shows through | S |
| As they move | U |
David Herbert Lawrence
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