At Baia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFA GHIJIAKA DALLCMA NAO EE| I should have thought | A |
| in a dream you would have brought | A |
| some lovely perilous thing | B |
| orchids piled in a great sheath | C |
| as who would say in a dream | D |
| I send you this | E |
| who left the blue veins | F |
| of your throat unkissed | A |
| - | |
| Why was it that your hands | G |
| that never took mine | H |
| your hands that I could see | I |
| drift over the orchid heads | J |
| so carefully | I |
| your hands so fragile sure to lift | A |
| so gently the fragile flower stuff | K |
| ah ah how was it | A |
| - | |
| You never sent in a dream | D |
| the very form the very scent | A |
| not heavy not sensuous | L |
| but perilous perilous | L |
| of orchids piled in a great sheath | C |
| and folded underneath on a bright scroll | M |
| some word | A |
| - | |
| Flower sent to flower | N |
| for white hands the lesser white | A |
| less lovely of flower leaf | O |
| - | |
| or | - |
| - | |
| Lover to lover no kiss | E |
| no touch but forever and ever this | E |
Hilda Doolittle
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