The Black Shawl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB AA CD E FF GG HH II JJ KK LM NN FF OO AA| As of senses bereft at a black shawl I stare | A |
| And my chill heart is tortured with deadly despair | A |
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| When dreaming too fondly in credulous youth | B |
| I loved a Greek maiden with passion and truth | B |
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| My Greek girl was gentle and loving and fair | A |
| But my joy quickly sank in a day of despair | A |
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| Once I feasted gay friends ere the banquet was o'er | C |
| A Jew the accursed softly knocked at my door | D |
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| 'Thou art laughing ' he whispered 'in pleasure's mad whirl | E |
| But she hath betrayed thee thy young Grecian girl ' | - |
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| I cursed him but gold as a guerdon I gave | F |
| And took as companion my trustiest slave | F |
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| My swift charger I mounted at once we depart | G |
| And the soft voice of pity was stilled in my heart | G |
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| The Greek maiden's dwelling I hardly could mark | H |
| For my limbs they grew faint and my eyes they grew dark | H |
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| I silently entered alone and amazed | I |
| An Armenian was kissing the girl as I gazed | I |
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| I saw not the light but I seized my good blade | J |
| The betrayer ne'er finished the kiss that betrayed | J |
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| On his warm headless body I trampled then spurn'd | K |
| And silent and pale to the maiden I turned | K |
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| I remember her prayers in her blood how she strove | L |
| Then perished my Greek girl then perished my love | M |
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| I tore the black shawl from her head as she lay | N |
| Wiped the blood dripping weapon and hurried away | N |
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| When the mists of the evening rose gloomy my slave | F |
| Threw each corpse in the Danube's dark fastrolling wave | F |
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| Since then no bewildering eyes can delight | O |
| Since then I forbear festive banquets at night | O |
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| As of senses bereft at a black shawl I stare | A |
| And my chill heart is tortured with deadly despair | A |
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
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