To His Love Instead Of A Promised Picture-book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC CEEC ACCA AFFA GHHG IJJI C| The greater and the lesser ills | A |
| He waved his grey hand wearily | B |
| Back to the anger of the sea | B |
| Then forward to the blue of hills | A |
| - | |
| Out from the shattered barquenteen | C |
| The black frieze coated sailors bore | D |
| Their dying despot to the shore | D |
| And wove a crazy palanquin | C |
| - | |
| They found a valley where the rain | C |
| Had worn the fern wood to a paste | E |
| And tiny streams came down in haste | E |
| To eastward of the mountain chain | C |
| - | |
| And here was handiwork of Cretes | A |
| And olives grew beside a stone | C |
| And one slim phallos stood alone | C |
| Blasphemed at by the paroquets | A |
| - | |
| Hard by a wall of basalt bars | A |
| The night came like a settling bird | F |
| And here he wept and slept and stirred | F |
| Faintly beneath the turning stars | A |
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| Then like a splash of saffron whey | G |
| That spills from out a bogwood bowl | H |
| Oozed from the mountain clefts the whole | H |
| Rich and reluctant light of day | G |
| - | |
| And when he neither moved nor spoke | I |
| And did not heed the morning call | J |
| They laid him underneath the wall | J |
| And wrapped him in a purple cloak | I |
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| From the Modern Persian | C |
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