Nippon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH GGGG GGIG JKFK| Last night I dreamed of Nippon | A |
| I saw a cloud of white | B |
| Drifting before the sunset | C |
| On seas of opal light | B |
| - | |
| Beyond the wide Pacific | D |
| I saw its mounded snow | E |
| Miraculously changing | F |
| In that deep evening glow | E |
| - | |
| To rosy rifts and hillocks | G |
| To orchards that I knew | H |
| To snows of peach and cherry | I |
| And feathers of bamboo | H |
| - | |
| I saw on twisted bridges | G |
| In blue and crimson gleams | G |
| The lanterns of the fishers | G |
| Along the brook of dreams | G |
| - | |
| I saw the wreaths of incense | G |
| Like little ghosts arise | G |
| From temples under Fuji | I |
| From Fuji to the skies | G |
| - | |
| I saw that fairy mountain | J |
| I watched it form and fade | K |
| No doubt the gods were singing | F |
| When Nippon isle was made | K |
Alfred Noyes
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