Lydia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DE FG EH EI JKLM NE KH OP PQ RP IS TUGG EG| There was life before us | A |
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| my sister and I discovered | B |
| looking at photographs | C |
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| we shouldn't have been looking at | D |
| of the English girl my father | E |
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| was engaged to during the war | F |
| Here she is right in front of our eyes | G |
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| the woman before my mother | E |
| in a black lace cocktail dress | H |
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| a cigarette in a holder | E |
| pensive earthy waiting | I |
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| in front of the carved wooden radio | J |
| for news from the front | K |
| This is the war after all | L |
| and here she is again somewhere | M |
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| on an English beach draped | N |
| across my father's shoulder | E |
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| all of her silky skin radiant | K |
| above the soft folds of sun dress | H |
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| They stand in front of a sign | O |
| that reads 'Seaside Cottages | P |
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| two dollars ' And here she is | P |
| again painted onto the cockpit | Q |
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| of my father's plane with hardly | R |
| anything on at all and here he is | P |
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| in his flight jacket looking | I |
| in fact happy My sister and I each | S |
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| lift our pencils like cigarettes | T |
| taking long sultry drags to puff | U |
| out invisible rings They rise | G |
| in the air like silver nooses | G |
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| that will catch our father | E |
| and hold him to us | G |
Geraldine Connolly
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