To A Gitana Dancing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDDEFFEGHHGIDDI JKKLMNOM| Because you are fair as souls of the lost are fair | A |
| And your eyelids laugh with desire and your laughing feet | B |
| Are winged with desire and your hands are wanton and sweet | B |
| Is the promise of love in your lips and the rose in your hair | A |
| Sweet unfaded a promise sweet to be sought | C |
| And the maze you tread is as old as the world is old | D |
| Therefore you hold me body and soul in your hold | D |
| And time as you dance is not and the world is as nought | D |
| You dance and I know the desire of all flesh and the pain | E |
| Of all longing of body for body you beckon repel | F |
| Entreat and entice and bewilder and build up the spell | F |
| Link by link with deliberate steps of a flower soft chain | E |
| You laugh and I know the despair and you smile and I know | G |
| The delight of your love and the flower in your hair is a star | H |
| It brightens I follow it fades and I see it afar | H |
| You pause I awake have I dreamt was it longer ago | G |
| Than a dream that I saw you smile for you turn you turn | I |
| As a startled beast in the toils it is you that entreat | D |
| Desperate hating the coils that have fastened your feet | D |
| The desire you desired that has come and your lips now yearn | I |
| And your hands now ache and your feet faint for love | J |
| Longing has taken hold even on you | K |
| You the witch of desire and you pause and anew | K |
| Your stillness moves and you pause and your hands move | L |
| Time as you dance is as nought and the moments seem | M |
| Swift as eternity time is at end for you close | N |
| Eyes and lips and hands in sudden repose | O |
| You smile was it all no longer ago than a dream | M |
Arthur Symons
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