Cruelty And Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGHHHHIGGG AAJJKLHHHK LLK LLJJ LLMMMML LNLLNL OOLLPPFFQQORORRSRRSR| What large dark hands are those at the window | A |
| Lifted grasping in the yellow light | B |
| Which makes its way through the curtain web | C |
| At my heart to night | B |
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| Ah only the leaves So leave me at rest | D |
| In the west I see a redness come | E |
| Over the evening's burning breast | D |
| For now the pain is numb | E |
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| The woodbine creeps abroad | F |
| Calling low to her lover | G |
| The sunlit flirt who all the day | H |
| Has poised above her lips in play | H |
| And stolen kisses shallow and gay | H |
| Of dalliance now has gone away | H |
| She woos the moth with her sweet low word | I |
| And when above her his broad wings hover | G |
| Then her bright breast she will uncover | G |
| And yield her honey drop to her lover | G |
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| Into the yellow evening glow | A |
| Saunters a man from the farm below | A |
| Leans and looks in at the low built shed | J |
| Where hangs the swallow's marriage bed | J |
| The bird lies warm against the wall | K |
| She glances quick her startled eyes | L |
| Towards him then she turns away | H |
| Her small head making warm display | H |
| Of red upon the throat Her terrors sway | H |
| Her out of the nest's warm busy ball | K |
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| Whose plaintive cries start up as she flies | L |
| In one blue stoop from out the sties | L |
| Into the evening's empty hall | K |
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| Oh water hen beside the rushes | L |
| Hide your quaint unfading blushes | L |
| Still your quick tail and lie as dead | J |
| Till the distance covers his dangerous tread | J |
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| The rabbit presses back her ears | L |
| Turns back her liquid anguished eyes | L |
| And crouches low then with wild spring | M |
| Spurts from the terror of the oncoming | M |
| To be choked back the wire ring | M |
| Her frantic effort throttling | M |
| Piteous brown ball of quivering fears | L |
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| Ah soon in his large hard hands she dies | L |
| And swings all loose to the swing of his walk | N |
| Yet calm and kindly are his eyes | L |
| And ready to open in brown surprise | L |
| Should I not answer to his talk | N |
| Or should he my tears surmise | L |
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| I hear his hand on the latch and rise from my chair | O |
| Watching the door open he flashes bare | O |
| His strong teeth in a smile and flashes his eyes | L |
| In a smile like triumph upon me then careless wise | L |
| He flings the rabbit soft on the table board | P |
| And comes towards me ah the uplifted sword | P |
| Of his hand against my bosom and oh the broad | F |
| Blade of his hand that raises my face to applaud | F |
| His coming he raises up my face to him | Q |
| And caresses my mouth with his fingers smelling grim | Q |
| Of the rabbit's fur God I am caught in a snare | O |
| I know not what fine wire is round my throat | R |
| I only know I let him finger there | O |
| My pulse of life letting him nose like a stoat | R |
| Who sniffs with joy before he drinks the blood | R |
| And down his mouth comes to my mouth and down | S |
| His dark bright eyes descend like a fiery hood | R |
| Upon my mind his mouth meets mine and a flood | R |
| Of sweet fire sweeps across me so I drown | S |
| Within him die and find death good | R |
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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