Mirage Of The Desert Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GDHD IJKL| Well there's the brazier set by the temple door | A |
| Blue flames run over the coals and flicker through | B |
| There are cool spaces of sky between white clouds | C |
| But what are flames and spaces but eyes of blue | B |
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| And there's the harp on which great fingers play | D |
| Of gods who touch the wires dreaming infinite things | E |
| And there's a soul that wanders out when called | F |
| By a voice afar from the answering strings | E |
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| And there's the wish of the deep fulfillment of tears | G |
| Till the vision the mad music are wept away | D |
| One cannot have them and live but if one die | H |
| It might be better than living who can say | D |
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| Why do we thirst for urns beyond urns who know | I |
| How sweet they are yet bitter not enough | J |
| Eternity will quench your thirst O soul | K |
| But never the Desert's spectre cup of love | L |
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Edgar Lee Masters
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