A Dream Of The Orient Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCCBDDEFFFE GGHEEEH IIHJJJH KKHLLLH| With a resplendent Eastern bride | A |
| Like a houri at my side | A |
| And music round us swelling | B |
| Mid odours of so rare a steam | C |
| That like a breath of love they seem | C |
| Dwell I through a radiant dream | C |
| In an orient dwelling | B |
| Near a fair fountain flashing high | D |
| In the pleasure court we lie | D |
| Each on a gorgeous pillow | E |
| The columned water mounting breaks | F |
| In outward curves and falling flakes | F |
| Till the whole a picture makes | F |
| Of a crystal willow | E |
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| Wide round us galleried walls extend | G |
| Pierced with arcs and aisles that bend | G |
| On wreathen pillars slender | H |
| While hung in every vista lo | E |
| Such clouds of blazoned banners glow | E |
| As in very semblance show | E |
| A constant sunset splendour | H |
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| And virgin faces darkly bright | I |
| Like the countenance of night | I |
| Seen in its starry glory | H |
| All ministrant around us throng | J |
| And breathe their pathos into song | J |
| Or in tones as rich prolong | J |
| Some wild melodious story | H |
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| Till hark Through many voices one | K |
| Like a gush of gold doth run | K |
| Why why should kindred sever | H |
| Our life is this perpetual feast | L |
| Of being from all care released | L |
| Sunny souls are for the East | L |
| Then dwell with us for ever | H |
Charles Harpur
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