The Phoenix Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FFGG HIJJ KBAA LLLL FFMM KKKNO NOPP CCQQ PPPP RRAB| O Blest unfabled Incense Tree | A |
| That burns in glorious Araby | B |
| With red scent chalicing the air | C |
| Till earth life grow Elysian there | C |
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| Half buried to her flaming breast | D |
| In this bright tree she makes her nest | D |
| Hundred sunn'd Phoenix When she must | E |
| Crumble at length to hoary dust | E |
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| Her gorgous death bed Her rich pyre | F |
| Burnt up with aromatic fire | F |
| Her urn sight high from spoiler men | G |
| Her birthplace when self born again | G |
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| The mountainless green wilds among | H |
| Here ends she her unechoing song | I |
| With amber tears and oderous sighs | J |
| Mourn'd by the desert where she dies | J |
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| Laid like the young fawn mossily | K |
| In sun green vales of Araby | B |
| I woke hard by the Phoenix tree | A |
| That with shadeless boughs flamed over me | A |
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| And upward call'd for a dumb cry | L |
| With moonbread orbs of wonder I | L |
| Beheld the immortal Bird on high | L |
| Glassing the great Sun in her eye | L |
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| Stedfast she gazed upon his fire | F |
| Still her destroyer and her sire | F |
| As if to his her soul of flame | M |
| Had flown already whence it came | M |
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| Like those that sit and glare so still | K |
| Intense with their death struggle till | K |
| We touch and curdle at their chill | K |
| But breathing yet while she doth burn | N |
| The deathless Daughter of the Sun | O |
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| Slowly to crimson embers turn | N |
| The beauties of the brightsome one | O |
| O'er the broad nest her silver wings | P |
| Shook down their wasteful glitterings | P |
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| Her brinded neck high arch'd in air | C |
| Like a small rainbow faded there | C |
| But brighter glow'd her plumy crown | Q |
| Mouldering to golden ashes down | Q |
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| With fume of sweet woods to the skies | P |
| Pure asa Saint's adoring sighs | P |
| Warm as a prayer in Paradise | P |
| Her life breath rose in sacrifice | P |
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| The while with shrill triumphant tone | R |
| Sounding aloud aloft alone | R |
| Ceaseless her joyful deathwail she | A |
| Sang to departing Araby | B |
George Darley
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