Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDABCEFGHG IJKLIKKLMKMK NKOPQKRPSBSM KTMUKTMUVWVW XWKYZWKYKA2KA2When I was a windy boy and a bit | A |
And the black spit of the chapel fold | B |
Sighed the old ram rod dying of women | C |
I tiptoed shy in the gooseberry wood | D |
The rude owl cried like a tell tale tit | A |
I skipped in a blush as the big girls rolled | B |
Nine pin down on donkey's common | C |
And on seesaw sunday nights I wooed | E |
Whoever I would with my wicked eyes | F |
The whole of the moon I could love and leave | G |
All the green leaved little weddings' wives | H |
In the coal black bush and let them grieve | G |
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When I was a gusty man and a half | I |
And the black beast of the beetles' pews | J |
Sighed the old ram rod dying of bitches | K |
Not a boy and a bit in the wick | L |
Dipping moon and drunk as a new dropped calf | I |
I whistled all night in the twisted flues | K |
Midwives grew in the midnight ditches | K |
And the sizzling sheets of the town cried Quick | L |
Whenever I dove in a breast high shoal | M |
Wherever I ramped in the clover quilts | K |
Whatsoever I did in the coal | M |
Black night I left my quivering prints | K |
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When I was a man you could call a man | N |
And the black cross of the holy house | K |
Sighed the old ram rod dying of welcome | O |
Brandy and ripe in my bright bass prime | P |
No springtailed tom in the red hot town | Q |
With every simmering woman his mouse | K |
But a hillocky bull in the swelter | R |
Of summer come in his great good time | P |
To the sultry biding herds I said | S |
Oh time enough when the blood runs cold | B |
And I lie down but to sleep in bed | S |
For my sulking skulking coal black soul | M |
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When I was half the man I was | K |
And serve me right as the preachers warn | T |
Sighed the old ram rod dying of downfall | M |
No flailing calf or cat in a flame | U |
Or hickory bull in milky grass | K |
But a black sheep with a crumpled horn | T |
At last the soul from its foul mousehole | M |
Slunk pouting out when the limp time came | U |
And I gave my soul a blind slashed eye | V |
Gristle and rind and a roarers' life | W |
And I shoved it into the coal black sky | V |
To find a woman's soul for a wife | W |
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Now I am a man no more no more | X |
And a black reward for a roaring life | W |
Sighed the old ram rod dying of strangers | K |
Tidy and cursed in my dove cooed room | Y |
I lie down thin and hear the good bells jaw | Z |
For oh my soul found a sunday wife | W |
In the coal black sky and she bore angels | K |
Harpies around me out of her womb | Y |
Chastity prays for me piety sings | K |
Innocence sweetens my last black breath | A2 |
Modesty hides my thighs in her wings | K |
And all the deadly virtues plague my death | A2 |
Dylan Thomas
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