La Belle Juive Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE CCC FFF GGG HHH III JJJ KKK LLL| Is it because your sable hair | A |
| Is folded over brows that wear | A |
| At times a too imperial air | A |
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| Or is it that the thoughts which rise | B |
| In those dark orbs do seek disguise | B |
| Beneath the lids of Eastern eyes | B |
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| That choose whatever pose or place | C |
| May chance to please in you I trace | C |
| The noblest women of your race | C |
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| The crowd is sauntering at its ease | D |
| And humming like a hive of bees | D |
| You take your seat and touch the keys | D |
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| I do not hear the giddy throng | E |
| The sea avenges Israel's wrong | E |
| And on the wind floats Miriam's song | E |
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| You join me with a stately grace | C |
| Music to Poesy gives place | C |
| Some grand emotion lights your face | C |
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| At once I stand by Mizpeh's walls | F |
| With smiles the martyred daughter falls | F |
| And desolate are Mizpeh's halls | F |
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| Intrusive babblers come between | G |
| With calm pale brow and lofty mien | G |
| You thread the circle like a queen | G |
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| Then sweeps the royal Esther by | H |
| The deep devotion in her eye | H |
| Is looking If I die I die | H |
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| You stroll the garden's flowery walks | I |
| The plants to me are grainless stalks | I |
| And Ruth to old Naomi talks | I |
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| Adopted child of Judah's creed | J |
| Like Judah's daughters true at need | J |
| I see you mid the alien seed | J |
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| I watch afar the gleaner sweet | K |
| I wake like Boaz in the wheat | K |
| And find you lying at my feet | K |
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| My feet Oh if the spell that lures | L |
| My heart through all these dreams endures | L |
| How soon shall I be stretched at yours | L |
Henry Timrod
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