Arabesque Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCBDDA EFFGGFHHE DIIJIKKL DMMLLMNND OPPLLPQQO RSSTTSUUR DVVWWVLLD XNNYYNNNN| On a background of pale gold | A |
| I would trace with quaint design | B |
| Penciled fine | B |
| Brilliant colored Moorish scenes | C |
| Mosques and crescents pages queens | C |
| Line on line | B |
| That the prose world of to day | D |
| Might the gorgeous Past's array | D |
| Once behold | A |
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| On the magic painted shield | E |
| Rich Granada's Vega green | F |
| Should be seen | F |
| Crystal fountains coolness flinging | G |
| Hanging gardens' skyward springing | G |
| Emerald sheen | F |
| Ruddy when the daylight falls | H |
| Crowned Alhambra's beetling walls | H |
| Stand revealed | E |
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| Balconies that overbrow | D |
| Field and city vale and stream | I |
| In a dream | I |
| Lulled the drowsy landscape basks | J |
| Mark the gleam | I |
| Silvery of each white swathed peak | K |
| Mountain airs caress the cheek | K |
| Fresh from the snow | L |
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| Here in Lindaraxa's bower | D |
| The immortal roses bloom | M |
| In the room | M |
| Lion guarded marble paven | L |
| Still the fountain leaps to heaven | L |
| But the doom | M |
| Of the banned and stricken race | N |
| Overshadows every place | N |
| Every hour | D |
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| Where fair Lindaraxa dwelt | O |
| Flits the bat on velvet wings | P |
| Mute the strings | P |
| Of the broken mandoline | L |
| The Pavilion of the Queen | L |
| Widely flings | P |
| Vacant windows to the night | Q |
| Moonbeams kiss the floor with light | Q |
| Where she knelt | O |
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| Through these halls that people stepped | R |
| Who through darkling centuries | S |
| Held the keys | S |
| Of all wisdom truth and art | T |
| In a Paradise apart | T |
| Lapped in ease | S |
| Sagely pondering deathless themes | U |
| While befooled with monkish dreams | U |
| Europe slept | R |
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| Where shall they be found today | D |
| Yonder hill that frets the sky | V |
| The last Sigh | V |
| Of the Moor is named still | W |
| There the ill starred Boabdil | W |
| Bade good by | V |
| To Granada and to Spain | L |
| Where the Crescent ne'er again | L |
| Holdeth sway | D |
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| Vanished like the wind that blows | X |
| Whither shall we seek their trace | N |
| On earth's face | N |
| The gigantic wheel of fate | Y |
| Crushing all things soon or late | Y |
| Now a race | N |
| Now a single life o'erruns | N |
| Now a universe of suns | N |
| Now a rose | N |
Emma Lazarus
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