Song Of Sappho's Arabian Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBB DBBDD ECCE FDDFF| Dreaming I said 'When she is come | A |
| This desert garden that is me | B |
| For her shall offer mellowly | C |
| Its myrrh and its olibanum | B |
| When she is come | B |
| - | |
| 'The flowers of the noon for her | D |
| With blossoms of the sun shall bloom | B |
| The fading roses breathe perfume | B |
| The lightly fallen petals stir | D |
| And sigh to her | D |
| - | |
| 'Her presence like a living wind | E |
| Each little leaf makes visible | C |
| Shalt enter there or lilac the spell | C |
| Upon the lulling leaves divined | E |
| Of silent wind ' | - |
| - | |
| Alas for she has come and gone | F |
| And in the garden green for her | D |
| The flowers fall the flowers stir | D |
| Only to winds of night and dawn | F |
| For she has gone | F |
Clark Ashton Smith
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