O Who Will Speak From A Womb Or A Cloud? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKLMNFO PQREPJSPT EUVIPWPFQX EPYZTA2PX B2C2D2E2F2G2YH2I2| Not less light shall the gold and the green lie | A |
| On the cyclonic curl and diamonded eye than | B |
| Love lay yesterday on the breast like a beast | C |
| Not less light shall God tread my maze of nerve | D |
| Than that great dread of tomorrow drove over | E |
| My maze of days Not less terrible that tread | F |
| Stomping upon your grave than I shall tread there | G |
| Who is a god to haunt the tomb but Love | H |
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| Therefore I shall be there at morning and midnight | I |
| Not with a straw in my hair and a tear as Ophelia | J |
| Floating along my sorrow but I shall come with | K |
| The cabala of things the cipher of nature so that | L |
| With the mere flounce of a bird's feather crest | M |
| I shall speak to you where you sit in all trees | N |
| Where you conspire with all things that are dead | F |
| Who is so far that Love cannot speak to him | O |
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| So that no corner can hide you no autumn of leaves | P |
| So deeply close over you that I shall not find you | Q |
| To stretch down my hand and sting you with life | R |
| Like poison that resurrects O remember | E |
| How once the Lyrae dazzled and how the Novembers | P |
| Smoked so that blood burned flashed its mica | J |
| And that was life Now if I dip my hand in your grave | S |
| Shall I find it bloody with autumn and bright with stars | P |
| Who is to answer if you will not answer me | T |
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| But you are the not yet dead so cannot answer | E |
| Hung by a hair's breadth to the breath of a lung | U |
| Nothing you know of the hole over which you hang | V |
| But that it's dark and deep as tomorrow midnight | I |
| I ask but you cannot answer except with words | P |
| Which show me the mere interior of your fear | W |
| The reverse face of the world But this | P |
| This is not death the standing on the head | F |
| So that a sky is seen O who | Q |
| Who but the not yet born can tell me of my bourne | X |
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| Lie you there lie you there my never never | E |
| Never to be delivered daughter so wise in ways | P |
| Where you perch like a bird beyond the horizon | Y |
| Seeing but not being seen above our being | Z |
| Then tell me shall the meeting ever be | T |
| When the corpse dives back through the womb | A2 |
| To clasp his child before it ever was | P |
| Who but the dead can kiss the not yet born | X |
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| Sad is space between a start and a finish | B2 |
| Like the rough roads of stars fiery and mad | C2 |
| I go between birth and the urn a bright ash | D2 |
| Soon blazed to blank like a fire ball But | E2 |
| Nothing I bring from the before no message | F2 |
| No clue no key no answer I hear no echo | G2 |
| Only the sheep's blood dripping from the gun | Y |
| The serpent's tear like fire along the branch | H2 |
| O who will speak from a womb or a cloud | I2 |
George Barker
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