Our Eunuch Dreams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEBF GHIJ A KLAMNO POQA A RRSTRU AVWA XYZW A2YB2 C2| I | A |
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| Our eunuch dreams all seedless in the light | B |
| Of light and love the tempers of the heart | C |
| Whack their boys' limbs | D |
| And winding footed in their shawl and sheet | E |
| Groom the dark brides the widows of the night | B |
| Fold in their arms | F |
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| The shades of girls all flavoured from their shrouds | G |
| When sunlight goes are sundered from the worm | H |
| The bones of men the broken in their beds | I |
| By midnight pulleys that unhouse the tomb | J |
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| II | A |
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| In this our age the gunman and his moll | K |
| Two one dimensional ghosts love on a reel | L |
| Strange to our solid eye | A |
| And speak their midnight nothings as they swell | M |
| When cameras shut they hurry to their hole | N |
| down in the yard of day | O |
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| They dance between their arclamps and our skull | P |
| Impose their shots showing the nights away | O |
| We watch the show of shadows kiss or kill | Q |
| Flavoured of celluloid give love the lie | A |
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| III | A |
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| Which is the world Of our two sleepings which | R |
| Shall fall awake when cures and their itch | R |
| Raise up this red eyed earth | S |
| Pack off the shapes of daylight and their starch | T |
| The sunny gentlemen the Welshing rich | R |
| Or drive the night geared forth | U |
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| The photograph is married to the eye | A |
| Grafts on its bride one sided skins of truth | V |
| The dream has sucked the sleeper of his faith | W |
| That shrouded men might marrow as they fly | A |
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| IV | - |
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| This is the world the lying likeness of | - |
| Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move | - |
| Loving and being loth | X |
| The dream that kicks the buried from their sack | Y |
| And lets their trash be honoured as the quick | Z |
| This is the world Have faith | W |
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| For we shall be a shouter like the cock | A2 |
| Blowing the old dead back our shots shall smack | Y |
| The image from the plates | B2 |
| And we shall be fit fellows for a life | - |
| And who remains shall flower as they love | - |
| Praise to our faring hearts | C2 |
Dylan Thomas
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