Poet Isaac Rosenberg

Isaac Rosenberg

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Daughters Of War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHGEIJKCLMNIO PQRSTE UVWGIXYGZIA2B2NC2 D2E2F2G2VH2I2J2 K2ZL2M2DN2K2NO2P2WQ2

Space beats the ruddy freedom of their limbsA
Their naked dances with man's spirit nakedB
By the root side of the tree of lifeC
The under side of thingsD
And shut from earth's profoundest eyesE
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I saw in prophetic gleamsF
These mighty daughters in their dancesG
Beckon each soul aghast from its crimson corpseH
To mix in their glittering dancesG
I heard the mighty daughters' giant sighsE
In sleepless passion for the sons of valourI
And envy of the days fo fleshJ
Barring their love with mortal boughs acrossK
The mortal boughs the mortal tree of lifeC
The old bark burnt with iron warsL
They blow to a live flameM
To char the young green claysN
And reach the occult soul they have no softer lureI
No softer lure than the savage ways of deathO
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We were satisfied of our lords the moon and the sunP
To take our wage of sleep and bread and warmthQ
These maidens came these strong everliving AmazonsR
And in an easy might their wristsS
Of night's sway and noon's sway the sceptres brakeT
Clouding the wild the soft lustres of our eyesE
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Clouding the wild lustres the clinging tender lightsU
Driving the darkness into the flame of clayV
With the Amazonian wind of themW
Over our corroding facesG
That must be broken broken for evermoreI
So the soul can leap outX
Into their huge embracesY
Though there are human facesG
Best sculptures of DeityZ
And sinews lusted afterI
By the Archangels tallA2
Even these must leap to the love heat of these maidensB2
From the flame of terrene daysN
Leaving grey ashes to the wind to the windC2
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One whose great lifted faceD2
Where wisdom's strength and beauty's strengthE2
And the thewed strength of large beastsF2
Moved and merged gloomed and litG2
Was speaking surely as the earth men's earth fell awayV
Whose new hearing drank the soundH2
Where pictures lutes and mountains mixedI2
With the loosed spirit of a thought Essenced to language thusJ2
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'My sisters force their malesK2
From the doomed earth from the doomed gleeZ
And hankering of heartsL2
Frail hands gleam up through the human quagmire and lips of ashM2
Seem to wail as in sad faded paintingsD
Far sunken and strangeN2
My sisters have their malesK2
Clean of the dust of old daysN
That clings about those white handsO2
And yearns in those voices sadP2
But these shall not see themW
Or think of them in any days or yearsQ2
They are my sisters' lovers in other days and years '-

Isaac Rosenberg



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