The Virgin Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEB FBDBAB DGFGDG AHIHDH FDDDGD JKGKLK| My little love my darling | A |
| You were a doorway to me | B |
| You let me out of the confines | C |
| Into this strange countrie | D |
| Where people are crowded like thistles | E |
| Yet are shapely and comely to see | B |
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| My little love my dearest | F |
| Twice have you issued me | B |
| Once from your womb sweet mother | D |
| Once from myself to be | B |
| Free of all hearts my darling | A |
| Of each heart s home life free | B |
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| And so my love my mother | D |
| I shall always be true to you | G |
| Twice I am born my dearest | F |
| To life and to death in you | G |
| And this is the life hereafter | D |
| Wherein I am true | G |
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| I kiss you good bye my darling | A |
| Our ways are different now | H |
| You are a seed in the night time | I |
| I am a man to plough | H |
| The difficult glebe of the future | D |
| For God to endow | H |
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| I kiss you good bye my dearest | F |
| It is finished between us here | D |
| Oh if I were calm as you are | D |
| Sweet and still on your bier | D |
| O God if I had not to leave you | G |
| Alone my dear | D |
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| Let the last word be uttered | J |
| Oh grant the farewell is said | K |
| Spare me the strength to leave you | G |
| Now you are dead | K |
| I must go but my soul lies helpless | L |
| Beside your bed | K |
David Herbert Lawrence
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