As I Came Down From Lebanon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCADDA AEEAFFAFFA AGGAEEAHHA AFFAFFAFFA| As I came down from Lebanon | A |
| Came winding wandering slowly down | B |
| Through mountain passes bleak and brown | B |
| The cloudless day was well nigh done | A |
| The city like an opal set | C |
| In emerald showed each minaret | C |
| Afire with radiant beams of sun | A |
| And glistened orange fig and lime | D |
| Where song birds made melodious chime | D |
| As I came down from Lebanon | A |
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| As I came down from Lebanon | A |
| Like lava in the dying glow | E |
| Through olive orchards far below | E |
| I saw the murmuring river run | A |
| And 'neath the wall upon the sand | F |
| Swart sheiks from distant Samarcand | F |
| With precious spices they had won | A |
| Lay long and languidly in wait | F |
| Till they might pass the guarded gate | F |
| As I came down from Lebanon | A |
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| As I came down from Lebanon | A |
| I saw strange men from lands afar | G |
| In mosque and square and gay bazar | G |
| The Magi that the Moslem shun | A |
| And grave Effendi from Stamboul | E |
| Who sherbet sipped in corners cool | E |
| And from the balconies o'errun | A |
| With roses gleamed the eyes of those | H |
| Who dwell in still seraglios | H |
| As I came down from Lebanon | A |
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| As I came down from Lebanon | A |
| The flaming flower of daytime died | F |
| And Night arrayed as is a bride | F |
| Of some great king in garments spun | A |
| Of purple and the finest gold | F |
| Outbloomed in glories manifold | F |
| Until the moon above the dun | A |
| And darkening desert void of shade | F |
| Shone like a keen Damascus blade | F |
| As I came down from Lebanon | A |
Clinton Scollard
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