Fantasia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCDEFBBBBC DBDDBDCC CGCGCCHCCBBC| Here in Samarcand they offer emeralds | A |
| Pure as frozen drops of sea water | B |
| Rubies pale as dew ponds stained with slaughter | B |
| Where the fairies fought for a king's daughter | B |
| In the elfin upland | C |
| Here they sell you jade and calcedony | D |
| And the matrix of the turquoise | E |
| Spheres of onyx held in eagles' claws | F |
| But they keep the gems as far asunder | B |
| From the dull stones as the lightning from the thunder | B |
| They can never come together | B |
| On the mats of Turkish leather | B |
| In the booths of Samarcand | C |
| - | |
| Here they sell you balls of nard and honey | D |
| And squat jars of clarid butter | B |
| And the cheese from Kurdistan | D |
| When you offer Frankish money | D |
| Then they scowl and curse and mutter | B |
| Deep in Kurdish or Persan | D |
| For they want your heart out and my hand | C |
| In the booths of Samarcand | C |
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| They would sell your heart's blood separate | C |
| In a jar with a gold brim | G |
| With a text of burning hatred | C |
| Coiled around the rim | G |
| They would sell my hand upon a beam of teak wood | C |
| In the other scale a feather curled | C |
| They would sell your heart upon a silver balance | H |
| Weighed against the world | C |
| But your heart could never touch my hand | C |
| They could never come together | B |
| On the mats of Turkish leather | B |
| In the booths of Samarcand | C |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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