Geraldine Connolly

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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 usA
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my sister and I discoveredB
looking at photographsC
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we shouldn't have been looking atD
of the English girl my fatherE
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was engaged to during the warF
Here she is right in front of our eyesG
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the woman before my motherE
in a black lace cocktail dressH
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a cigarette in a holderE
pensive earthy waitingI
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in front of the carved wooden radioJ
for news from the frontK
This is the war after allL
and here she is again somewhereM
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on an English beach drapedN
across my father's shoulderE
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all of her silky skin radiantK
above the soft folds of sun dressH
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They stand in front of a signO
that reads 'Seaside CottagesP
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two dollars ' And here she isP
again painted onto the cockpitQ
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of my father's plane with hardlyR
anything on at all and here he isP
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in his flight jacket lookingI
in fact happy My sister and I eachS
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lift our pencils like cigarettesT
taking long sultry drags to puffU
out invisible rings They riseG
in the air like silver noosesG
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that will catch our fatherE
and hold him to usG

Geraldine Connolly



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