An Eastern God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCCDDEEFFCCCCCC GGHHCC| I saw an Eastern God to day | A |
| My comrades laughed lest I betray | A |
| My secret thoughts I mocked him too | B |
| His many hands he had no few | B |
| This God of gifts and charity | C |
| The marble race that smiled on me | C |
| I mocked and said O God unthroned | C |
| Lone exile from the faith you owned | C |
| No priest to bring you sacrifice | D |
| No censer with its breath of spice | D |
| No land to mourn your funeral pyre | E |
| O King whose subjects felt your fire | E |
| Now dead now stone without a slave | F |
| Unfeared unloved you have no grave | F |
| Poor God who cannot understand | C |
| And what of your fair Eastern land | C |
| What dark brows brushed your dusky feet | C |
| What warm hearts on your marble beat | C |
| With many a prayer unanswered | C |
| My comrades laughed and passed I said | C |
| If in those lands you wander still | G |
| In spirit God and work your will | G |
| I whispered in the marble ear | H |
| So low because the walls might hear | H |
| The painted lips they smiled at me | C |
| O guard my love where'er he be | C |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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