Dance Figure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDBEFBDGH DIDJ BKAJ AL DA DB| For the Marriage in Cana of Galilee | A |
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| Dark eyed | B |
| O woman of my dreams | C |
| Ivory sandalled | B |
| There is none like thee among the dancers | D |
| None with swift feet | B |
| I have not found thee in the tents | E |
| In the broken darkness | F |
| I have not found thee at the well head | B |
| Among the women with pitchers | D |
| Thine arms are as a young sapling under the bark | G |
| Thy face as a river with lights | H |
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| White as an almond are thy shoulders | D |
| As new almonds stripped from the husk | I |
| They guard thee not with eunuchs | D |
| Not with bars of copper | J |
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| Gilt turquoise and silver are in the place of thy rest | B |
| A brown robe with threads of gold woven in | K |
| patterns hast thou gathered about thee | A |
| O Nathat Ikanaie 'Tree at the river' | J |
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| As a rillet among the sedge are thy hands upon me | A |
| Thy fingers a frosted stream | L |
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| Thy maidens are white like pebbles | D |
| Their music about thee | A |
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| There is none like thee among the dancers | D |
| None with swift feet | B |
Ezra Pound
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