Abu Midjan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE BFBF GDGD HFHF| When Father Time swings round his scythe | A |
| Intomb me 'neath the bounteous vine | B |
| So that its juices red and blithe | C |
| May cheer these thirsty bones of mine | B |
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| Elsewise with tears and bated breath | D |
| Should I survey the life to be | E |
| But oh How should I hail the death | D |
| That brings that vinous grace to me | E |
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| So sung the dauntless Saracen | B |
| Whereat the Prophet Chief ordains | F |
| That curst of Allah loathed of men | B |
| The faithless one shall die in chains | F |
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| But one vile Christian slave that lay | G |
| A prisoner near that prisoner saith | D |
| God willing I will plant some day | G |
| A vine where liest thou in death | D |
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| Lo over Abu Midjan's grave | H |
| With purpling fruit a vine tree grows | F |
| Where rots the martyred Christian slave | H |
| Allah and only Allah knows | F |
Eugene Field
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