To Sir Richard F. Burton Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDBBDEBFFGFGG| ON HIS TRANSLATION OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS | A |
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| Westward the sun sinks grave and glad but far | B |
| Eastward with laughter and tempestuous tears | C |
| Cloud rain and splendour as of orient spears | D |
| Keen as the sea's thrill toward a kindling star | B |
| The sundawn breaks the barren twilight's bar | B |
| And fires the mist and slays it Years on years | D |
| Vanish but he that hearkens eastward hears | E |
| Bright music from the world where shadows are | B |
| Where shadows are not shadows Hand in hand | F |
| A man's word bids them rise and smile and stand | F |
| And triumph All that glorious orient glows | G |
| Defiant of the dusk Our twilight land | F |
| Trembles but all the heaven is all one rose | G |
| Whence laughing love dissolves her frosts and snows | G |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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