Ballade Of Ajam The Washerman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDB DEDB FEGH HIBAB J| Come to me to day wearing your green collar | A |
| Make your two orange sleeves float in the air and come to me | B |
| Touch your hair with essence and colour your clothes yellow | C |
| The deer of reason has fled from the hill of my heart | D |
| Come to me | B |
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| The deer of reason has fled from the hill of my heart | D |
| Because I have seen your gold rings and your amber rings | E |
| Your eyes have lighted a small fire below my heart | D |
| Put on your gold rings and your amber rings and come to me | B |
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| Put on your gold rings and your amber rings and you will be more beautiful | F |
| Than the brown girls of poets and the milk white wives of kings | E |
| The coil of your hair is like a hangman's rope | G |
| But press me to your green collar between your orange sleeves | H |
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| Press me to your green collar between your orange sleeves | H |
| And give yourself once to Ajam Slip away weeping | I |
| Slip weeping away from the house of the wicked and come to me | B |
| Come to me to day wearing your green collar | A |
| Make your two orange sleeves float in the air and come to me | B |
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| From the Pus'hto Afghans | J |
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