Edward Powys Mathers (as Translator)

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Vengeance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJCK LMNOPD QKRQPS TGUTVS TWXYDZ A2YB2C2CD2 GE2F2G2A2H2 GI2J2DD2E2 K2D2L2D2D2E2 GGD2DM2N2 D2DD2YG2D2 D2

Aischa was mineA
My tender cousinB
My blond loverC
And you knew our loveD
Uncle without bowelsE
Foul old manF
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For a few weights of goldG
You sold her to the blacksH
And they will drive a stinking tradeI
At the dark marketJ
Your slender daughterC
The free child of our hillsK
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She will go to serve the bedL
Of a fat man with no GodM
A guts that cannot walkN
A belly hiding his own feetO
A rolling paunchP
Between itself and loveD
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She was slim and quickQ
Like the antelope of our hillsK
When he comes down in the summer timeR
To bathe in the pools of TereckQ
Her stainless fleshP
Was all moonlightS
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Her long silk hairT
Was of so fine a goldG
And of so honey like a brownU
That bees flew thereT
And her red lipsV
Were flowers in sunlightS
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She was fair alas she was fairT
So that her beauty goesW
To a garden of dying flowersX
Made one with the girls that mournY
And wither for light and loveD
Behind the harem barsZ
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And you have dirty dreamsA2
That she will be SultaneY
And you will drink and boastB2
And roll aboutC2
The grinning ancestorC
Of little kingsD2
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Hugging your very wicked goldG
Within a greasy beltE2
You paddle exulting like a bald apeF2
That glories to defileG2
Unmindful of two hot young streamsA2
Of tearsH2
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You stole this dirty goldG
For this gold meansI2
Your daughter's freedomJ2
And your nephew's loveD
Two fresh and lovely thingsD2
Groaning within your beltE2
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The sunny playing of our childhoodK2
At the green foot of ElboursD2
The starry playing of our youthL2
Beyond the flowery fencesD2
These sigh their lost delightsD2
Within your beltE2
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Give me the goldG
Damn you give me the goldG
You kill my mercyD2
When you kill my loveD
Hold up your trembling swordM2
For this is deathN2
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I take the belt from the dead loinsD2
That put away my loveD
And turn my sweet white horseD2
After the caravanY
With dirty gold and clean steelG2
I'll set Aischa freeD2
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Ballad of the CaucasusD2

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