The Bayadere Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDEC FGGFFHHF FIIFJKKJ| Flaked drifting clouds hide not the full moon's rays | A |
| More than her beautiful bright limbs were hid | B |
| By the light veils they burned and blushed amid | B |
| Skilled to provoke in soft lascivious ways | A |
| And there was invitation in her voice | C |
| And laughing lips and wonderful dark eyes | D |
| As though above the gates of Paradise | E |
| Fair verses bade Be welcome and rejoice | C |
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| O'er rugs where mottled blue and green and red | F |
| Blent in the patterns of the Orient loom | G |
| Like a bright butterfly from bloom to bloom | G |
| She floated with delicious arms outspread | F |
| There was no pose she took no move she made | F |
| But all the feverous love envenomed flesh | H |
| Wrapped round as in the gladiator's mesh | H |
| And smote as with his triple forked blade | F |
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| I thought that round her sinuous beauty curled | F |
| Fierce exhalations of hot human love | I |
| Around her beauty valuable above | I |
| The sunny outspread kingdoms of the world | F |
| Flowing as ever like a dancing fire | J |
| Flowed her belled ankles and bejewelled wrists | K |
| Around her beauty swept like sanguine mists | K |
| The nimbus of a thousand hearts' desire | J |
Alan Seeger
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