The Arab Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEF GGBBHHIIJJAA AAKKLLMMNNOO| On on my brown Arab away away | A |
| Thou hast trotted o'er many a mile to day | A |
| And I trow right meagre hath been thy fare | B |
| Since they roused thee at dawn from thy straw piled lair | B |
| To tread with those echoless unshod feet | C |
| Yon weltering flats in the noontide heat | C |
| Where no palmtree proffers a kindly shade | D |
| And the eye never rests on a cool grass blade | D |
| And lank is thy flank and thy frequent cough | E |
| Oh it goes to my heart but away friend off | F |
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| And yet ah what sculptor who saw thee stand | G |
| As thou standest now on thy Native Strand | G |
| With the wild wind ruffling thine uncomb'd hair | B |
| And thy nostril upturn'd to the od'rous air | B |
| Would not woo thee to pause till his skill might trace | H |
| At leisure the lines of that eager face | H |
| The collarless neck and the coal black paws | I |
| And the bit grasp'd tight in the massive jaws | I |
| The delicate curve of the legs that seem | J |
| Too slight for their burden and O the gleam | J |
| Of that eye so sombre and yet so gay | A |
| Still away my lithe Arab once more away | A |
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| Nay tempt me not Arab again to stay | A |
| Since I crave neither Echo nor Fun to day | A |
| For thy HAND is not Echoless there they are | K |
| Fun Glowworm and Echo and Evening Star | K |
| And thou hintest withal that thou fain would'st shine | L |
| As I con them these bulgy old boots of mine | L |
| But I shrink from thee Arab Thou eat'st eel pie | M |
| Thou evermore hast at least one black eye | M |
| There is brass on thy brow and thy swarthy hues | N |
| Are due not to nature but handling shoes | N |
| And the hit in thy mouth I regret to see | O |
| Is a bit of tobacco pipe Flee child flee | O |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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