A Moorish Maid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEED DFGFHIIH DJKJDDDD| Above her veil a shrouded Moorish maid | A |
| Showed melting eyes as limpid as a lake | B |
| A brow untouched by care a band of jetty hair | C |
| And nothing more The all concealing haik | B |
| Fell to her high arched instep At her side | D |
| An old duenna walked her withered face | E |
| Half covered only since no lingering grace | E |
| Bespoke the beauty once her master's pride | D |
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| Above her veil the Moorish maid beheld | D |
| The modern world in Paris decked Algiers | F |
| Saw happy lad and lass in love's contentment pass | G |
| Or in sweet wholesome friendship free from fears | F |
| She saw fair matrons walking arm in arm | H |
| With life long lovers time endeared and then | I |
| She saw the ardent look in eyes of men | I |
| And thrilled and trembled with a vague alarm | H |
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| Above her veil she saw the stuccoed court | D |
| That led to dim secluded rooms within | J |
| She followed dutiful the dame unbeautiful | K |
| Who told her that the Christian world means sin | J |
| Some day full soon she would go forth a bride | D |
| Of one whose face she never had beheld | D |
| Something within her wakened and rebelled | D |
| She flung aside her veil and cried and cried | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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