Jewels: A Young Man To A Merchant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DEDE AFAF GHGH AAAA ABAB| OLD Man your pearls are not for us | A |
| Your rubies die too soon | B |
| Have you the pearls of Sirius | A |
| Or opals of the moon | B |
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| I do not ask for other gems | A |
| Flashing with frost and fire | C |
| The sky's undying diadems | A |
| Shall be my love's attire | C |
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| Emeralds that into rubies melt | D |
| Upon the brow of night | E |
| I've taken from Orion's belt | D |
| To make her girdle bright | E |
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| On high ways of the albatross | A |
| I scale the purple air | F |
| For sapphires of the Southern Cross | A |
| And wreath them in her hair | F |
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| Her robe it is the morning sky | G |
| Her veil it is the West | H |
| So robed so veiled my love will fly | G |
| When I am gone to rest | H |
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| Yet all the rays of all the moons | A |
| The lights of all the skies | A |
| Are pale beside the dim lagoons | A |
| Of those mysterious eyes | A |
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| Old Man your pearls are not for us | A |
| Your rubies die too soon | B |
| Have you the pearls of Sirius | A |
| Or opals of the moon | B |
Herbert Asquith
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