The Haschish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFGHGHIFIFJFJF AAAAFAFAFHFHFKFKFLFL IAIAAHAH| Of all that Orient lands can vaunt | A |
| Of marvels with our own competing | B |
| The strangest is the Haschish plant | A |
| And what will follow on its eating | B |
| What pictures to the taster rise | C |
| Of Dervish or of Almeh dances | D |
| Of Eblis or of Paradise | E |
| Set all aglow with Houri glances | F |
| The poppy visions of Cathay | G |
| The heavy beer trance of the Suabian | H |
| The wizard lights and demon play | G |
| Of nights Walpurgis and Arabian | H |
| The Mollah and the Christian dog | I |
| Change place in mad metempsychosis | F |
| The Muezzin climbs the synagogue | I |
| The Rabbi shakes his beard at Moses | F |
| The Arab by his desert well | J |
| Sits choosing from some Caliph's daughters | F |
| And hears his single camel's bell | J |
| Sound welcome to his regal quarters | F |
| The Koran's reader makes complaint | A |
| Of Shitan dancing on and off it | A |
| The robber offers alms the saint | A |
| Drinks Tokay and blasphemes the Prophet | A |
| Such scenes that Eastern plant awakes | F |
| But we have one ordained to beat it | A |
| The Haschish of the West which makes | F |
| Or fools or knaves of all who eat it | A |
| The preacher eats and straight appears | F |
| His Bible in a new translation | H |
| Its angels negro overseers | F |
| And Heaven itself a snug plantation | H |
| The man of peace about whose dreams | F |
| The sweet millennial angels cluster | K |
| Tastes the mad weed and plots and schemes | F |
| A raving Cuban filibuster | K |
| The noisiest Democrat with ease | F |
| It turns to Slavery's parish beadle | L |
| The shrewdest statesman eats and sees | F |
| Due southward point the polar needle | L |
| The Judge partakes and sits erelong | I |
| Upon his bench a railing blackguard | A |
| Decides off hand that right is wrong | I |
| And reads the ten commandments backward | A |
| O potent plant so rare a taste | A |
| Has never Turk or Gentoo gotten | H |
| The hempen Haschish of the East | A |
| Is powerless to our Western Cotton | H |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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