The Turk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGC HHHHDHHHFIHHHHHEJDH| A totally perverse Turk bought for himself | A |
| Out of grief for the recent death | B |
| Of plump Fatme his favorite wife | C |
| From his white slaver two former mannequins in quite good | D |
| condition | E |
| You could almost say brand new | F |
| Just imported from France | G |
| When he had them he sang in celebration of himelf | C |
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| Sit down on my thighs | H |
| Hold me around my loins | H |
| With your sweet tongues | H |
| Stroke my tearful cheeks | H |
| Ah you have such beautifully bejeweled | D |
| Eyes and such clear hands | H |
| Weariest of my wives | H |
| And such long gentle legs | H |
| Tomorrow I buy six pairs of new | F |
| Stockings of the thinnest silk | I |
| As well as very small black silk shoes | H |
| And in the evening you will dance | H |
| Soft false dances | H |
| In the new silk shoes | H |
| And new silk stockings | H |
| In the garden In the sun | E |
| Close to the water | J |
| But at night I'll have you whipped | D |
| By four smiling eunuchs | H |
Alfred Lichtenstein
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