James Whitcomb Riley

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In The South Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDE FGFGHHII JKJKJJLL MJMJJJJJ

There is a princess in the SouthA
About whose beauty rumors humB
Like honey bees about the mouthA
Of roses dewdrops falter fromB
And O her hair is like the fineC
Clear amber of a jostled wineC
In tropic revels and her eyesD
Are blue as rifts of ParadiseE
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Such beauty as may none beforeF
Kneel daringly to kiss the tipsG
Of fingers such as knights of yoreF
Had died to lift against their lipsG
Such eyes as might the eyes of goldH
Of all the stars of night beholdH
With glittering envy and so glareI
In dazzling splendor of despairI
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So were I but a minstrel deftJ
At weaving with the trembling stringsK
Of my glad harp the warp and weftJ
Of rondels such as rapture singsK
I'd loop my lyre across my breastJ
Nor stay me till my knee found restJ
In midnight banks of bud and flowerL
Beneath my lady's lattice bowerL
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And there drenched with the teary dewsM
I'd woo her with such wondrous artJ
As well might stanch the songs that oozeM
Out of the mockbird's breaking heartJ
So light so tender and so sweetJ
Should be the words I would repeatJ
Her casement on my gradual sightJ
Would blossom as a lily mightJ

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