Fog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DBEB FBBB GBHB BIJK BLBM NOBP BBQB RBST UVWB BXYB ZA2BW B2C2JW D2BE2B BBTF2 BBE2W G2WH2B I2BJ2B BBBB BK2BB BBZL2 BTB2O BBFB BM2K2B

Light silken curtain colorless and softA
Dreamlike before me floating what abidesB
Behind thy pearly veil'sB
Opaque mysterious woofC
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Where sleek red kine and dappled crunch day longD
Thick luscious blades and purple clover headsB
Nigh me I still can markE
Cool fields of beaded grassB
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No more for on the rim of the globed worldF
I seem to stand and stare at nothingnessB
But songs of unseen birdsB
And tranquil roll of wavesB
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Bring sweet assurance of continuous lifeG
Beyond this silvery cloud Fantastic dreamsB
Of tissue subtler stillH
Than the wreathed fog ariseB
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And cheat my brain with airy vanishingsB
And mystic glories of the world beyondI
A whole enchanted townJ
Thy baffling folds concealK
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An Orient town with slender steepled mosquesB
Turret from turret springing dome from domeL
Fretted with burning stonesB
And trellised with red goldM
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Through spacious streets where running waters flowN
Sun screened by fruit trees and the broad leaved palmO
Past the gay decked bazaarsB
Walk turbaned dark eyed menP
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Hark you can hear the many murmuring tonguesB
While loud the merchants vaunt their gorgeous waresB
The sultry air is spicedQ
With fragrance of rich gumsB
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And through the lattice high in yon dead wallR
See where unveiled an arch young dimpled faceB
Flushed like a musky peachS
Peers down upon the martT
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From her dark ringleted and bird poised headU
She hath cast back the milk white silken veilV
'Midst the blank blackness thereW
She blossoms like a roseB
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Beckons she not with those bright full orbed eyesB
And open arms that like twin moonbeams gleamX
Behold her smile on meY
With honeyed scarlet lipsB
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Divine Scheherazade I am thineZ
I come I come Hark from some far off mosqueA2
The shrill muezzin callsB
The hour of silent prayerW
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And from the lattice he hath scared my loveB2
The lattice vanisheth itself the streetC2
The mart the Orient townJ
Only through still soft airW
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That cry is yet prolonged I wake to hearD2
The distant fog horn peal before mine eyesB
Stands the white wall of mistE2
Blending with vaporous skiesB
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Elusive gossamer imperviousB
Even to the mighty sun god's keen red shaftsB
With what a jealous artT
Thy secret thou dost guardF2
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Well do I know deep in thine inmost foldsB
Within an opal hollow there abidesB
The lady of the mistE2
The Undine of the airW
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A slender winged ethereal lily formG2
Dove eyed with fair free floating pearl wreathed hairW
In waving raiment swathedH2
Of changing irised huesB
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Where her feet rosy as a shell have grazedI2
The freshened grass a richer emerald glowsB
Into each flower cupJ2
Her cool dews she distillsB
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She knows the tops of jagged mountain peaksB
She knows the green soft hollows of their sidesB
And unafraid she floatsB
O'er the vast circled seasB
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She loves to bask within the moon's wan beamsB
Lying night long upon the moist dark earthK2
And leave her seeded pearlsB
With morning on the grassB
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Ah that athwart these dim gray outer courtsB
Of her fantastic palace I might passB
And reach the inmost shrineZ
Of her chaste solitudeL2
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And feel her cool and dewy fingers pressB
My mortal fevered brow while in my heartT
She poured with tender loveB2
Her healing Lethe balmO
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See the close curtain moves the spell dissolvesB
Slowly it lifts the dazzling sunshine streamsB
Upon a newborn worldF
And laughing summer seasB
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Swift snowy breasted sandbirds twittering glanceB
Through crystal air On the horizon's margeM2
Like a huge purple wraithK2
The dusky fog retreatsB

Emma Lazarus



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