The Flight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFCGHIJK LHMNOPQRSLTU HVWPUTXYZA2B2C2 D2| Softly into the saddle | A |
| Of my black horse with white feet | B |
| Your brothers are frowning | C |
| And grasping swords in sleep | D |
| My rifle is as clean as moonlight | E |
| My flints are new | F |
| My long grey sword is sighing | C |
| In his blue sheath | G |
| Fatima gave me my grey sword | H |
| Of Temrouk steel | I |
| Damascened in red gold | J |
| To cut a pathway for the feet of love | K |
| - | |
| My eye is dark and keen | L |
| My hand has never trembled on the sword | H |
| If your brothers rise and follow | M |
| On their stormy horses | N |
| If they stretch their hot hands | O |
| To catch you from my breast | P |
| My rifle shall not sing to them | Q |
| My steel shall spare | R |
| My rifle's song is for my yellow girl | S |
| My eye is dark and keen | L |
| I'll send my bullet to the fairest heart | T |
| That ever lady loved with in the world | U |
| - | |
| My hand upon the sword | H |
| Shall be so strong | V |
| He'll find the little laughing place | W |
| Where you dance in my breast | P |
| And we'll have no more of the silly world | U |
| Where our lips must lie apart | T |
| We'll let death pour our souls | X |
| Into one cup | Y |
| And mount like joyous birds to God | Z |
| With hearts on fire | A2 |
| And God will mingle us into one shape | B2 |
| In an eternal garden of gold stars | C2 |
| - | |
| Love Ballad of the Caucasus | D2 |
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