Whales Weep Not! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEF GHIJKLF MNOF PQRSFHTU VNWJXYPF ZFPF| They say the sea is cold but the sea contains | A |
| the hottest blood of all and the wildest the most urgent | B |
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| All the whales in the wider deeps hot are they as they urge | C |
| on and on and dive beneath the icebergs | D |
| The right whales the sperm whales the hammer heads the killers | E |
| there they blow there they blow hot wild white breath out of the sea | F |
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| And they rock and they rock through the sensual ageless ages | G |
| on the depths of the seven seas | H |
| and through the salt they reel with drunk delight | I |
| and in the tropics tremble they with love | J |
| and roll with massive strong desire like gods | K |
| Then the great bull lies up against his bride | L |
| in the blue deep of the sea | F |
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| as mountain pressing on mountain in the zest of life | M |
| and out of the inward roaring of the inner red ocean of whale blood | N |
| the long tip reaches strong intense like the maelstrom tip and comes to rest | O |
| in the clasp and the soft wild clutch of a she whale's fathomless body | F |
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| And over the bridge of the whale's strong phallus linking the wonder of whales | P |
| the burning archangels under the sea keep passing back and forth | Q |
| keep passing archangels of bliss | R |
| from him to her from her to him great Cherubim | S |
| that wait on whales in mid ocean suspended in the waves of the sea | F |
| great heaven of whales in the waters old hierarchies | H |
| And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale tender young | T |
| and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end | U |
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| And bull whales gather their women and whale calves in a ring | V |
| when danger threatens on the surface of the ceaseless flood | N |
| and range themselves like great fierce Seraphim facing the threat | W |
| encircling their huddled monsters of love | J |
| and all this happiness in the sea in the salt | X |
| where God is also love but without words | Y |
| and Aphrodite is the wife of whales | P |
| most happy happy she | F |
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| and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she dolphin | Z |
| she is the gay delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea | F |
| she is the female tunny fish round and happy among the males | P |
| and dense with happy blood dark rainbow bliss in the sea | F |
David Herbert Lawrence
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