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 soft | A |
| Dreamlike before me floating what abides | B |
| Behind thy pearly veil's | B |
| Opaque mysterious woof | C |
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| Where sleek red kine and dappled crunch day long | D |
| Thick luscious blades and purple clover heads | B |
| Nigh me I still can mark | E |
| Cool fields of beaded grass | B |
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| No more for on the rim of the globed world | F |
| I seem to stand and stare at nothingness | B |
| But songs of unseen birds | B |
| And tranquil roll of waves | B |
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| Bring sweet assurance of continuous life | G |
| Beyond this silvery cloud Fantastic dreams | B |
| Of tissue subtler still | H |
| Than the wreathed fog arise | B |
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| And cheat my brain with airy vanishings | B |
| And mystic glories of the world beyond | I |
| A whole enchanted town | J |
| Thy baffling folds conceal | K |
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| An Orient town with slender steepled mosques | B |
| Turret from turret springing dome from dome | L |
| Fretted with burning stones | B |
| And trellised with red gold | M |
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| Through spacious streets where running waters flow | N |
| Sun screened by fruit trees and the broad leaved palm | O |
| Past the gay decked bazaars | B |
| Walk turbaned dark eyed men | P |
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| Hark you can hear the many murmuring tongues | B |
| While loud the merchants vaunt their gorgeous wares | B |
| The sultry air is spiced | Q |
| With fragrance of rich gums | B |
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| And through the lattice high in yon dead wall | R |
| See where unveiled an arch young dimpled face | B |
| Flushed like a musky peach | S |
| Peers down upon the mart | T |
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| From her dark ringleted and bird poised head | U |
| She hath cast back the milk white silken veil | V |
| 'Midst the blank blackness there | W |
| She blossoms like a rose | B |
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| Beckons she not with those bright full orbed eyes | B |
| And open arms that like twin moonbeams gleam | X |
| Behold her smile on me | Y |
| With honeyed scarlet lips | B |
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| Divine Scheherazade I am thine | Z |
| I come I come Hark from some far off mosque | A2 |
| The shrill muezzin calls | B |
| The hour of silent prayer | W |
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| And from the lattice he hath scared my love | B2 |
| The lattice vanisheth itself the street | C2 |
| The mart the Orient town | J |
| Only through still soft air | W |
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| That cry is yet prolonged I wake to hear | D2 |
| The distant fog horn peal before mine eyes | B |
| Stands the white wall of mist | E2 |
| Blending with vaporous skies | B |
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| Elusive gossamer impervious | B |
| Even to the mighty sun god's keen red shafts | B |
| With what a jealous art | T |
| Thy secret thou dost guard | F2 |
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| Well do I know deep in thine inmost folds | B |
| Within an opal hollow there abides | B |
| The lady of the mist | E2 |
| The Undine of the air | W |
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| A slender winged ethereal lily form | G2 |
| Dove eyed with fair free floating pearl wreathed hair | W |
| In waving raiment swathed | H2 |
| Of changing irised hues | B |
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| Where her feet rosy as a shell have grazed | I2 |
| The freshened grass a richer emerald glows | B |
| Into each flower cup | J2 |
| Her cool dews she distills | B |
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| She knows the tops of jagged mountain peaks | B |
| She knows the green soft hollows of their sides | B |
| And unafraid she floats | B |
| O'er the vast circled seas | B |
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| She loves to bask within the moon's wan beams | B |
| Lying night long upon the moist dark earth | K2 |
| And leave her seeded pearls | B |
| With morning on the grass | B |
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| Ah that athwart these dim gray outer courts | B |
| Of her fantastic palace I might pass | B |
| And reach the inmost shrine | Z |
| Of her chaste solitude | L2 |
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| And feel her cool and dewy fingers press | B |
| My mortal fevered brow while in my heart | T |
| She poured with tender love | B2 |
| Her healing Lethe balm | O |
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| See the close curtain moves the spell dissolves | B |
| Slowly it lifts the dazzling sunshine streams | B |
| Upon a newborn world | F |
| And laughing summer seas | B |
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| Swift snowy breasted sandbirds twittering glance | B |
| Through crystal air On the horizon's marge | M2 |
| Like a huge purple wraith | K2 |
| The dusky fog retreats | B |
Emma Lazarus
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