The King's Consort Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DCDC EBEB A FFGG CCCC HHII J| I | A |
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| Love was it yesternoon or years agone | B |
| You took in yours my hands | C |
| And placed me close beside you on the throne | B |
| Of Oriental lands | C |
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| The truant hour came back at dawn to day | D |
| Across the hemispheres | C |
| And bade my sleeping soul retrace its way | D |
| These many hundred years | C |
| - | |
| And all my wild young life returned and ceased | E |
| The years that lie between | B |
| When you were King of Egypt and The East | E |
| And I was Egypt's queen | B |
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| II | A |
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| I feel again the lengths of silken gossamer enfold | F |
| My body and my limbs in robes of emerald and gold | F |
| I feel the heavy sunshine and the weight of languid heat | G |
| That crowned the day you laid the royal jewels at my feet | G |
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| You wound my throat with jacinths green and glist'ning serpent wise | C |
| My hot dark throat that pulsed beneath the ardour of your eyes | C |
| And centuries have failed to cool the memory of your hands | C |
| That bound about my arms those massive pliant golden bands | C |
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| You wreathed around my wrists long ropes of coral and of jade | H |
| And beaten gold that clung like coils of kisses love inlaid | H |
| About my naked ankles tawny topaz chains you wound | I |
| With clasps of carven onyx ruby rimmed and golden bound | I |
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| But not for me the Royal Pearls to bind about my hair | J |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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