Proposal Of Marriage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB CDE FGH IJK LMN OPQ K| Your eyes are black like water melon pips | A |
| Your lips are red like the red flesh of water melons | B |
| Your loins are smooth like smooth rind water melons | B |
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| You are more beautiful than my favourite among mares | C |
| Your buttocks are sleeker and firmer | D |
| Like her your movements are on legs of light steel | E |
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| Come and sit at my hearth and I will celebrate your coming | F |
| I will choose from the hundred flocks of each a hundred | G |
| Passing at the foot of the Himalaya | H |
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| The two most silky and most beautiful great sheep | I |
| We will go to the temple and sacrifice one of the two | J |
| To the god Pandu that you may have many children | K |
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| And I will kill the other and roast it whole | L |
| My most fair rose tree serving as a spit | M |
| I will ask the prettiest eaters and the prettiest drinkers | N |
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| And while they eat and drink greatly for three days | O |
| I will wind silver rings upon your arms and feet | P |
| And hang a chain of river gold about your neck | Q |
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| Popular Song of Kafiristan | K |
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