The Jade Staircase Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCD EFG E HIEJ K| The jade staircase is bright with dew | A |
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| Slowly this long night the queen climbs | B |
| Letting her gauze stockings and her elaborate robe | C |
| Drag in the shining water | D |
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| Dazed with the light | E |
| She lowers the crystal blind | F |
| Before the door of the pavilion | G |
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| It leaps down like a waterfall in sunlight | E |
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| While the tiny clashing dies down | H |
| Sad and long dreaming | I |
| She watches between the fragments of jade light | E |
| The shining of the autumn moon | J |
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| From the Chinese of Li Po | K |
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