Wandering Through Love's Strange Bazaar (verse Xlii) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCD EEEE FGG| Wandering through love's strange bazaar | A |
| Held by the seaside not far | A |
| A sad pearl fair as a star | A |
| By great luck fell to Agar | B |
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| Too long to her breast she pressed it | C |
| And too long her eyes caressed it | C |
| That soon she came to detest it | C |
| And dropped it as the sea crested | D |
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| The venomous Agar crying | E |
| Into a great rage then flying | E |
| From the sea the pearl tried prying | E |
| With the stormy sea replying | E |
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| 'Why fool did you so soon discard | F |
| The fairest pearl in all the world | G |
| Back to my depths the pearl you hurled | G |
| Now the sad pearl you spurned I guard ' | - |
Jose Marti
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