The Choosing Of Esther (from The Drama Of Mizpah) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C C A BDAAB C AEAF A GAHIJK C AJ A LMNO C MPQRA A RSATMA C MMUUBBCC A GV C KKWWHHXX A AY C ZZCCAA A CA2 C MMB2B2CC A PC2D2 C E2E2F2F2AA| AHASUERAS | A |
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| Tell me thy name | B |
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| ESTHER | C |
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| My name great sire is Esther | C |
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| AHASUERAS | A |
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| So thou art Esther Esther 'tis a name | B |
| Breathed into sound as softly as a sigh | D |
| A woman's name should melt upon the lips | A |
| Like Love's first kisses and thy countenance | A |
| Is fit companion for so sweet a name | B |
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| ESTHER | C |
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| Thou art most kind I would my name and face | A |
| Were mine own making and not accident | E |
| Then I might feel elated at thy praise | A |
| Where now I feel confusion | F |
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| AHASUERAS | A |
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| Thou hast wit | G |
| As well as beauty Esther Both are gems | A |
| That do embellish woman in man's sight | H |
| Yet they are gems of second magnitude | I |
| Dost THOU possess the one great perfect gem | J |
| The matchless jewel of the world called LOVE | K |
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| ESTHER | C |
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| Sire in the heart of every woman dwells | A |
| That wondrous perfect gem | J |
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| AHASUERAS | A |
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| Then Esther speak | L |
| And tell me what is LOVE I fain would know | M |
| Thy definition of that much mouthed word | N |
| By woman most employed least understood | O |
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| ESTHER | C |
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| What can a humble Jewish maiden know | M |
| That would instruct a warrior and a king | P |
| I have but dreamed of love as maidens will | Q |
| While thou hast known its fulness All the world | R |
| Loves Great Ahasueras | A |
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| AHASUERAS | A |
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| All the world | R |
| FEARS GREAT Ahasueras Kings my child | S |
| Are rarely loved as anything but kings | A |
| Love as I see it in the court and camp | T |
| Means seeking royal favour I would know | M |
| How love is fashioned in a maiden's dreams | A |
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| ESTHER | C |
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| Sire love seeks nothing that kings can bestow | M |
| Love is the king of all kings here below | M |
| Love makes the monarch but a bashful boy | U |
| Love makes the peasant monarch in his joy | U |
| Love seeks not place all places are the same | B |
| When lighted by the radiance of love's flame | B |
| Who deems proud love could fawn to power and splendour | C |
| Hath known not love but some base born pretender | C |
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| AHASUERAS | A |
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| If this be love I would know more of it | G |
| Speak on fair Esther What is love beside | V |
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| ESTHER | C |
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| Love is in all things all things are in love | K |
| Love is the earth the sea the skies above | K |
| Love is the bird the blossom and the wind | W |
| Love hath a million eyes yet love is blind | W |
| Love is a tempest awful in its might | H |
| Love is the silence of a moon lit night | H |
| Love is the aim of every human soul | X |
| And he who hath not loved hath missed life's goal | X |
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| AHASUERAS | A |
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| But tell me of thyself of thine own dreams | A |
| How wouldst thou love and how be loved again | Y |
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| ESTHER | C |
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| Who most doth love thinks least of love's return | Z |
| She is content to feel the passion burn | Z |
| In her own bosom and its sacred fire | C |
| Consumes each selfish purpose and desire | C |
| 'Tis in the giving love's best rapture lies | A |
| Not in the counting of the things it buys | A |
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| AHASUERAS | A |
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| Yet is there not vast anguish and despair | C |
| In love that finds no answering word or smile | A2 |
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| ESTHER | C |
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| So radiant is love it lends a glow | M |
| To each dark sorrow and to every woe | M |
| To love completely is to part with pain | B2 |
| Nor is there mortal who can love in vain | B2 |
| Love is its own reward it pays full measure | C |
| And in love's sharpest grief lies subtlest pleasure | C |
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| AHASUERAS | A |
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| Methinks a mighty warrior lord or king | P |
| Must in thy fancy play the lover's part | C2 |
| None else could wake such reverential thought | D2 |
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| ESTHER | C |
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| When woman loves one born of lowly state | E2 |
| Her thought gives crown and sceptre to her mate | E2 |
| Yet be he king or chief of some great clan | F2 |
| She loves him but as woman loves a man | F2 |
| Monarch or peasant 'tis the same I wis | A |
| When once she gives him love's surrendering kiss | A |
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