Tortoise Gallantry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKBLH MNOOPB QBRSD GTGH NU HVHB WNXT YZ| Making his advances | A |
| He does not look at her nor sniff at her | B |
| No not even sniff at her his nose is blank | C |
| Only he senses the vulnerable folds of skin | D |
| That work beneath her while she sprawls along | E |
| In her ungainly pace | F |
| Her folds of skin that work and row | G |
| Beneath the earth soiled hovel in which she moves | H |
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| And so he strains beneath her housey wall | I |
| And catches her trouser legs in his beak | J |
| Suddenly or her skinny limb | K |
| And strange and grimly drags at her | B |
| Like a dog | L |
| Only agelessly silent with a reptile's awful persistency | H |
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| Grim gruesome gallantry to which he is doomed | M |
| Dragged out of an eternity of silent isolation | N |
| And doomed to partiality partial being | O |
| Ache and want of being | O |
| Want | P |
| Self exposure hard humiliation need to add himself on to her | B |
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| Born to walk alone | Q |
| Fore runner | B |
| Now suddenly distracted into this mazy side track | R |
| This awkward harrowing pursuit | S |
| This grim necessity from within | D |
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| Does she know | G |
| As she moves eternally slowly away | T |
| Or is he driven against her with a bang like a bird flying in the dark against a window | G |
| All knowledgeless | H |
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| The awful concussion | N |
| And the still more awful need to persist to follow follow continue | U |
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| Driven after aeons of pristine fore god like singleness and oneness | H |
| At the end of some mysterious red hot iron | V |
| Driven away from himself into her tracks | H |
| Forced to crash against her | B |
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| Stiff gallant irascible crook legged reptile | W |
| Little gentleman | N |
| Sorry plight | X |
| We ought to look the other way | T |
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| Save that having come with you so far | Y |
| We will go on to the end | Z |
David Herbert Lawrence
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