The Spanish Dancer (verse X) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEEF GH I IJJI KLEK MNNM BOPB IQQI RSSR ITTI URRU VWWV XWYX| My soul tremulous and forlorn | A |
| At nightfall will grow lonely | B |
| There's a show let us go see | B |
| The Spanish dancer perform | C |
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| It is well they've taken down | D |
| The flag that stood at the door | E |
| For I had vowed that no more | E |
| Would I go where it was flown | F |
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| The Spanish dancer enters then | G |
| Looking so proud and so pale | H |
| 'From Galicia does she hail ' | - |
| No they are wrong she's from heaven | I |
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| She wears the matador's tricorne | I |
| And also his crimson cape | J |
| A gilliflower to drape | J |
| And with a great hat adorn | I |
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| On passing her eyebrows show | K |
| Eyebrows of a traitorous Moor | L |
| And the Moor's proud look she wore | E |
| And her ear was white as snow | K |
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| The lights are dimmed the music flares | M |
| In shawl and gown makes her entrance | N |
| The Holy Virgin's own semblance | N |
| Dancing to Andalucian airs | M |
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| Her head raised in challenge she | B |
| The cape o'er her shoulders spreads | O |
| With her arched arms framing her head | P |
| She taps her foot ardently | B |
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| Her studied taps tear the batten | I |
| As if each heel were a blade | Q |
| And the stage had been inlaid | Q |
| With the broken hearts of men | I |
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| The festive feeling is burning | R |
| In the fire of her eyes | S |
| The red speckled shawl now flies | S |
| In the air as she is turning | R |
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| With a sudden leap she glides down | I |
| Whirls round falls back and then darts | T |
| Wide her cashmere shawl she parts | T |
| To offer us her white gown | I |
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| All her body yields and sways | U |
| Her open mouth is enticing | R |
| A rose is her mouth while dancing | R |
| She's tapping her heels always | U |
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| Then turns she feebly to wind | V |
| The long and red speckled shawl | W |
| And shutting her eyes to all | W |
| In a sigh leaves all behind | V |
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| The Spanish dancer has done well | X |
| Red and white was her long shawl | W |
| The tremulous lonely soul | Y |
| Withdraws again to its cell | X |
Jose Marti
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