Eventail Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAAAACCDDAAEFAAGG HIAAJK| Lovely Semiramis | A |
| Closes her slanting eyes | A |
| Dead is she long ago | B |
| From her fan sliding slow | B |
| Parrot bright fire's feathers | A |
| Gilded as June weathers | A |
| Plumes like the greenest grass | A |
| Twinkle down as they pass | A |
| Through the green glooms in Hell | C |
| Fruits with a tuneful smell | C |
| Grapes like an emerald rain | D |
| Where the full moon has lain | D |
| Greengages bright as grass | A |
| Melons as cold as glass | A |
| Piled on each gilded booth | E |
| Feel their cheeks growing smooth | F |
| Apes in plumed head dresses | A |
| Whence the bright heat hisses | A |
| Nubian faces sly | G |
| Pursing mouth slanting eye | G |
| Feel the Arabian | H |
| Winds floating from that fan | I |
| See how each gilded face | A |
| Paler grows nods apace | A |
| 'Oh the fan's blowing | J |
| Cold winds It is snowing ' | K |
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
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