The Sword Dham Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEF AGAGHHIF BJCJKKLF IKDKMMNF GOGOPPQF HRHRIIEF| How shall we honor the man who creates | A |
| Asked the Bedouin chief the poet Antar | B |
| Who unto the truth flings open our gates | A |
| Or fashions new thoughts from the light of a star | C |
| Or forges with craft of his finger and brain | D |
| Some marvelous weapon we copy in vain | D |
| Or chants to the winds a wild song that shall | E |
| wander forever undying | F |
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| See His reward is in envies and hates | A |
| In lips that deny or in stabs that may kill | G |
| Nay said the smith for there's one here who waits | A |
| Humbly to serve you with unmeasured skill | G |
| Sure that no utmost devotion can fail | H |
| Offered to you nor unfriended assail | H |
| The heart of the hero and poet Antar whose | I |
| fame is undying | F |
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| Speak said the chief Then the smith O Antar | B |
| It is I who would serve you I know by the soul | J |
| Of the poet within you no envy can bar | C |
| The stream of your gratitude once let it roll | J |
| Listen The lightning your camel that slew | K |
| I caught and wrought in this sword blade for you | K |
| Sword that no foe shall encounter unhurt or | L |
| depart from undying | F |
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| Burst from the eyes of Antar a swift rain Gratitude's | I |
| glittering drops as he threw | K |
| One shining arm round the smith like a chain | D |
| Closer the man to his bosom he drew | K |
| Thankful caressing with Great is my debt | M |
| Yea said the smith and his eyelids were wet | M |
| I knew the sword Dham would unite me with | N |
| you in an honor undying | F |
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| So asked the chief as his thumb point at will | G |
| Silently over the sword's edge played | O |
| Ay said the smith but there's one thing still | G |
| Who is the smiter shall smite with this blade | O |
| Jealous their eyes met and fury awoke | P |
| I am the smiter Antar cried One stroke | P |
| Rolled the smith's head from his neck and gave | Q |
| him remembrance undying | F |
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| Seek now who may no search will avail | H |
| No man the mate of this weapon shall own | R |
| Yet in his triumph the chieftain made wail | H |
| Slain is the craftsman the one friend alone | R |
| Able to honor the man who creates | I |
| I slew him I who am poet O fates | I |
| Grant that the envious blade slaying artists shall | E |
| make them undying | F |
George Parsons Lathrop
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