Nippon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH GGGG GGIG JKFKLast night I dreamed of Nippon | A |
I saw a cloud of white | B |
Drifting before the sunset | C |
On seas of opal light | B |
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Beyond the wide Pacific | D |
I saw its mounded snow | E |
Miraculously changing | F |
In that deep evening glow | E |
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To rosy rifts and hillocks | G |
To orchards that I knew | H |
To snows of peach and cherry | I |
And feathers of bamboo | H |
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I saw on twisted bridges | G |
In blue and crimson gleams | G |
The lanterns of the fishers | G |
Along the brook of dreams | G |
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I saw the wreaths of incense | G |
Like little ghosts arise | G |
From temples under Fuji | I |
From Fuji to the skies | G |
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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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