The Carver And The Caliph Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFFG HHIJKK LMMMMMNN OOMMPPQQRRMMMMSSTTMM MMUQVV MMMMKWMM| We lay our story in the East | A |
| Because 'tis Eastern Not the least | A |
| We place it there because we fear | B |
| To bring its parable too near | B |
| And seem to touch with impious hand | C |
| Our dear confiding native land | C |
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| HAROUN ALRASCHID in the days | D |
| He went about his vagrant ways | D |
| And prowled at eve for good or bad | E |
| In lanes and alleys of BAGDAD | E |
| Once found at edge of the bazaar | F |
| E'en where the poorest workers are | F |
| A Carver | G |
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| Fair his work and fine | H |
| With mysteries of inlaced design | H |
| And shapes of shut significance | I |
| To aught but an anointed glance | J |
| The dreams and visions that grow plain | K |
| In darkened chambers of the brain | K |
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| And all day busily he wrought | L |
| From dawn to eve but no one bought | M |
| Save when some Jew with look askant | M |
| Or keen eyed Greek from the Levant | M |
| Would pause awhile depreciate | M |
| Then buy a month's work by the weight | M |
| Bearing it swiftly over seas | N |
| To garnish rich men's treasuries | N |
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| And now for long none bought at all | O |
| So lay he sullen in his stall | O |
| Him thus withdrawn the Caliph found | M |
| And smote his staff upon the ground | M |
| Ho there within Hast wares to sell | P |
| Or slumber'st having dined too well | P |
| 'Dined ' quoth the man with angry eyes | Q |
| How should I dine when no one buys | Q |
| Nay said the other answering low | R |
| Nay I but jested Is it so | R |
| Take then this coin but take beside | M |
| A counsel friend thou hast not tried | M |
| This craft of thine the mart to suit | M |
| Is too refined remote minute | M |
| These small conceptions can but fail | S |
| 'Twere best to work on larger scale | S |
| And rather choose such themes as wear | T |
| More of the earth and less of air | T |
| The fisherman that hauls his net | M |
| The merchants in the market set | M |
| The couriers posting in the street | M |
| The gossips as they pass and greet | M |
| These these are clear to all men's eye | U |
| Therefore with these they sympathize | Q |
| Further neglect not this advice | V |
| Be sure to ask three times the price | V |
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| The Carver sadly shook his head | M |
| He knew 'twas truth the Caliph said | M |
| From that day forth his work was planned | M |
| So that the world might understand | M |
| He carved it deeper and more plain | K |
| He carved it thrice as large again | W |
| He sold it too for thrice the cost | M |
| Ah but the Artist that was lost | M |
Henry Austin Dobson
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