C.l.m. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII FFJJFF FFKKF F| In the dark womb where I began | A |
| My mother's life made me a man | A |
| Through all the months of human birth | B |
| Her beauty fed my common earth | B |
| I cannot see nor breathe nor stir | C |
| But through the death of some of her | C |
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| Down in the darkness of the grave | D |
| She cannot see the life she gave | D |
| For all her love she cannot tell | E |
| Whether I use it ill or well | E |
| Nor knock at dusty doors to find | F |
| Her beauty dusty in the mind | F |
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| If the grave's gates could be undone | G |
| She would not know her little son | G |
| I am so grown If we should meet | H |
| She would pass by me in the street | H |
| Unless my soul's face let her see | I |
| My sense of what she did for me | I |
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| What have I done to keep in mind | F |
| My debt to her and womankind | F |
| What woman's happier life repays | J |
| Her for those months of wretched days | J |
| For all my mouthless body leeched | F |
| Ere Birth's releasing hell was reached | F |
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| What have I done or tried or said | F |
| In thanks to that dear woman dead | F |
| Men triumph over women still | K |
| Men trample women's rights at will | K |
| And man's lust roves the world untamed | F |
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| O grave keep shut lest I be shamed | F |
John Masefield
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