In The South Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDE FGFGHHII JKJKJJLL MJMJJJJJ| There is a princess in the South | A |
| About whose beauty rumors hum | B |
| Like honey bees about the mouth | A |
| Of roses dewdrops falter from | B |
| And O her hair is like the fine | C |
| Clear amber of a jostled wine | C |
| In tropic revels and her eyes | D |
| Are blue as rifts of Paradise | E |
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| Such beauty as may none before | F |
| Kneel daringly to kiss the tips | G |
| Of fingers such as knights of yore | F |
| Had died to lift against their lips | G |
| Such eyes as might the eyes of gold | H |
| Of all the stars of night behold | H |
| With glittering envy and so glare | I |
| In dazzling splendor of despair | I |
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| So were I but a minstrel deft | J |
| At weaving with the trembling strings | K |
| Of my glad harp the warp and weft | J |
| Of rondels such as rapture sings | K |
| I'd loop my lyre across my breast | J |
| Nor stay me till my knee found rest | J |
| In midnight banks of bud and flower | L |
| Beneath my lady's lattice bower | L |
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| And there drenched with the teary dews | M |
| I'd woo her with such wondrous art | J |
| As well might stanch the songs that ooze | M |
| Out of the mockbird's breaking heart | J |
| So light so tender and so sweet | J |
| Should be the words I would repeat | J |
| Her casement on my gradual sight | J |
| Would blossom as a lily might | J |
James Whitcomb Riley
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