Rhodope's Shoe Poem Rhyme Scheme

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In Egypt Rhodope was born	A
And lived afar from king and court	B
No jewels did the maid adorn	A
She crowned herself with flowers in sport	B
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Her hair was like a summer night	C
Her eyes like stars that twinkle low	D
Her voice like soft winds in their flight	C
When through the tremulous leaves they blow	D
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She dwelt beside the sacred Nile	E
And in its waters every day	F
With but the sun to gaze and smile	E
Like any nymph was wont to play	F
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While in the limpid stream she played	G
One day an eagle cleft the blue	H
And hovering o'er the sporting maid	G
Upon the bank espied her shoe	H
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Loth to forget so sweet a sight	C
And lest his memory should grow dim	I
He sought the earth with sudden flight	C
And bore the shoe aloft with him	I
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He bore it far and let it fall	J
In the king's palace where next day	F
So lily frail so strangely small	J
Within the palace court it lay	F
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The king was walking wrapped in thought	K
Throughout his palace up and down	L
Him had his councillors besought	K
With some fair maid to share his crown	L
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And he had searched the wide world through	H
To find a princess he could love	M
Yet all in vain he sought to woo	H
His heart there was not one could move	N
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Into the palace court he went	K
Still wondering whom to make his bride	K
And as he strolled eyes earthward bent	K
The wondrous tiny shoe he spied	K
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As leaps the sun to tropic skies	O
So sprang his heart unto its choice	P
Love sparkled brightly in his eyes	O
And thrilled triumphant in his voice	P
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You bid me wed I could not do	H
For lack of love your bidding Sirs	P
But find the maid who wore this shoe	H
And I will make my kingdom hers	P
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They searched the palace from the ground	K
Up to the towers but in vain	Q
Nowhere was maiden to be found	K
To own the shoe and share the reign	Q
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Then came a lad who told in awe	R
How just at dawn an eagle flew	H
Above the town and from its claw	S
Dropped to the palace yard the shoe	H
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The wise men stroked their beards and said	K
The gods have surely done this thing	T
That our beloved lord may wed	K
A maiden meet for such a king	T
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Then far and wide the heralds rode	K
To find the king's God chosen bride	K
They chanced on Rhodope's abode	K
The overflowing Nile beside	K
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She stood before the heralds twain	Q
She fitted on the tiny shoe	H
And claimed it for her own again	U
And not till then their errand knew	H
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The richest robes they offered her	V
But she refused them If my king	T
In my coarse garb will deem me fair	W
Then only will I take his ring	T
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Before the king the maid they brought	K
And at his feet she bent the knee	X
He gently raised her Nay kneel not	K
O sweetheart I should kneel to thee	X
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Fair as a poet's dream thou art	K
Purer than lilies Oh mine own	Y
Since thou has won thy monarch's heart	K
'Tis meet that thou shouldst share his throne	Y
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The wise men stroked their beards and said	K
The gods have surely done this thing	T
Then Rhodope the fair was wed	K
And ruled all Egypt with the king	T

Arthur Weir

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