The Bakchesarian Fountain Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

The Bakchesarian Fountain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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A TALE OF THE TAURIDE	A
Mute sat Giray with downcast eye	B
As though some spell in sorrow bound him	C
His slavish courtiers thronging nigh	B
In sad expectance stood around him	C
The lips of all had silence sealed	A
Whilst bent on him each look observant	A
Saw grief's deep trace and passion fervent	A
Upon his gloomy brow revealed	A
But the proud Khan his dark eye raising	D
And on the courtiers fiercely gazing	D
Gave signal to them to begone	E
The chief unwitnessed and alone	E
Now yields him to his bosom's smart	A
Deeper upon his brow severe	F
Is traced the anguish of his heart	A
As full fraught clouds on mirrors clear	F
Reflected terrible appear	F
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What fills that haughty soul with pain	E
What thoughts such madd'ning tumults cause	G
With Russia plots he war again	E
Would he to Poland dictate laws	H
Say is the sword of vengeance glancing	D
Does bold revolt claim nature's right	A
Do realms oppressed alarm excite	A
Or sabres of fierce foes advancing	D
Ah no no more his proud steed prancing	D
Beneath him guides the Khan to war	I
Such thoughts his mind has banished far	J
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Has treason scaled the harem's wall	K
Whose height might treason's self appal	K
And slavery's daughter fled his power	L
To yield her to the daring Giaour	L
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No pining in his harem sadly	K
No wife of his would act so madly	K
To wish or think they scarcely dare	L
By wretches cold and heartless guarded	A
Hope from each breast so long discarded	A
Treason could never enter there	L
Their beauties unto none revealed	A
They bloom within the harem's towers	M
As in a hot house bloom the flowers	M
Which erst perfumed Arabia's field	A
To them the days in sameness dreary	K
And months and years pass slow away	N
In solitude of life grown weary	K
Well pleased they see their charms decay	N
Each day alas the past resembling	D
Time loiters through their halls and bowers	M
In idleness and fear and trembling	D
The captives pass their joyless hours	M
The youngest seek indeed reprieve	O
Their hearts in striving to deceive	O
Into oblivion of distress	P
By vain amusements gorgeous dress	P
Or by the noise of living streams	Q
In soft translucency meand'ring	D
To lose their thoughts in fancy's dreams	Q
Through shady groves together wand'ring	D
But the vile eunuch too is there	L
In his base duty ever zealous	R
Escape is hopeless to the fair	L
From ear so keen and eye so jealous	R
He ruled the harem order reigned	A
Eternal there the trusted treasure	L
He watched with loyalty unfeigned	A
His only law his chieftain's pleasure	L
Which as the Koran he maintained	A
His soul love's gentle flame derides	S
And like a statue he abides	S
Hatred contempt reproaches jests	T
Nor prayers relax his temper rigid	A
Nor timid sighs from tender breasts	T
To all alike the wretch is frigid	A
He knows how woman's sighs can melt	A
Freeman and bondman he had felt	A
Her art in days when he was younger	L
Her silent tear her suppliant look	D
Which once his heart confiding shook	D
Now move not he believes no longer	L
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When to relieve the noontide heat	A
The captives go their limbs to lave	U
And in sequestered cool retreat	A
Yield all their beauties to the wave	U
No stranger eye their charms may greet	A
But their strict guard is ever nigh	B
Viewing with unimpassioned eye	B
These beauteous daughters of delight	A
He constant even in gloom of night	A
Through the still harem cautious stealing	D
Silent o'er carpet covered floors	V
And gliding through half opened doors	V
From couch to couch his pathway feeling	D
With envious and unwearied care	L
Watching the unsuspecting fair	L
And whilst in sleep unguarded lying	D
Their slightest movement breathing sighing	D
He catches with devouring ear	L
O curst that moment inauspicious	W
Should some loved name in dreams be sighed	A
Or youth her unpermitted wishes	X
To friendship venture to confide	A
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What pang is Giray's bosom tearing	D
Extinguished is his loved chubouk	D
Whilst or to move or breathe scarce daring	D
The eunuch watches every look	D
Quick as the chief approaching near him	C
Beckons the door is open thrown	E
And Giray wanders through his harem	Y
Where joy to him no more is known	E
Near to a fountain's lucid waters	M
Captivity's unhappy daughters	M
The Khan await in fair array	N
Around on silken carpets crowded	A
Viewing beneath a heaven unclouded	A
With childish joy the fishes play	N
And o'er the marble cleave their way	N
Whose golden scales are brightly glancing	D
And on the mimic billows dancing	D
Now female slaves in rich attire	L
Serve sherbet to the beauteous fair	L
Whilst plaintive strains from viewless choir	L
Float sudden on the ambient air	L
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TARTAR SONG	D
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I	B
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Heaven visits man with days of sadness	R
Embitters oft his nights with tears	Z
Blest is the Fakir who with gladness	Z
Views Mecca in declining years	Z
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II	B
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Blest he who sees pale Death await him	C
On Danube's ever glorious shore	L
The girls of Paradise shall greet him	C
And sorrows ne'er afflict him more	L
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III	B
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But he more blest O beauteous Zarem	C
Who quits the world and all its woes	Z
To clasp thy charms within the harem	C
Thou lovelier than the unplucked rose	Z
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They sing but where alas is Zarem	C
Love's star the glory of the harem	C
Pallid and sad no praise she hears	Z
Deaf to all sounds of joy her ears	Z
Downcast with grief her youthful form	C
Yields like the palm tree to the storm	C
Fair Zarem's dreams of bliss are o'er	L
Her loved Giray loves her no more	L
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He leaves thee yet whose charms divine	E
Can equal fair Grusinian thine	E
Shading thy brow thy raven hair	L
Its lily fairness makes more fair	L
Thine eyes of love appear more bright	A
Than noonday's beam more dark than night	A
Whose voice like thine can breathe of blisses	Z
Filling the heart with soft desire	L
Like thine ah whose inflaming kisses	Z
Can kindle passion's wildest fire	L
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Who that has felt thy twining arms	Z
Could quit them for another's charms	Z
Yet cold and passionless and cruel	K
Giray can thy vast love despise	Z
Passing the lonesome night in sighs	Z
Heaved for another fiercer fuel	K
Burns in his heart since the fair Pole	K
Is placed within the chief's control	K
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The young Maria recent war	L
Had borne in conquest from afar	L
Not long her love enkindling eyes	Z
Had gazed upon these foreign skies	Z
Her aged father's boast and pride	A
She bloomed in beauty by his side	A
Each wish was granted ere expressed	A
She to his heart the object dearest	A
His sole desire to see her blessed	A
As when the skies from clouds are clearest	A
Still from her youthful heart to chase	Z
Her childish sorrows his endeavour	L
Hoping in after life that never	L
Her woman's duties might efface	Z
Remembrance of her earlier hours	Z
But oft that fancy would retrace	Z
Life's blissful spring time decked in flowers	Z
Her form a thousand charms unfolded	A
Her face by beauty's self was moulded	A
Her dark blue eyes were full of fire	L
All nature's stores on her were lavished	A
The magic harp with soft desire	L
When touched by her the senses ravished	A
Warriors and knights had sought in vain	E
Maria's virgin heart to move	A2
And many a youth in secret pain	E
Pined for her in despairing love	B2
But love she knew not in her breast	A
Tranquil it had not yet intruded	A
Her days in mirth her nights in rest	A
In her paternal halls secluded	A
Passed heedless peace her bosom's guest	A
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That time is past The Tartar's force	Z
Rushed like a torrent o'er her nation	E
Rages less fierce the conflagration	E
Devouring harvests in its course	Z
Poland it swept with devastation	E
Involving all in equal fate	A
The villages once mirthful vanished	A
From their red ruins joy was banished	A
The gorgeous palace desolate	A
Maria is the victor's prize	Z
Within the palace chapel laid	A
Slumb'ring among th'illustrious dead	A
In recent tomb her father lies	Z
His ancestors repose around	A
Long freed from life and its alarms	Z
With coronets and princely arms	Z
Bedecked their monuments abound	A
A base successor now holds s	Z