The Arabian Shawl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACB DBDB EBEB FBFB| It is cold outside you will need a coat | A |
| What this old Arabian shawl | B |
| Bind it about your head and throat | A |
| These steps it is dark my hand you | C |
| might fall | B |
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| What has happened What strange sweet charm | D |
| Lingers about the Arabian shawl | B |
| Do not tremble so There can be no harm | D |
| In just remembering that is all | B |
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| I love you so I will be your wife | E |
| Here in the dark of the Terrace wall | B |
| Say it again Let that other life | E |
| Fold us like the Arabian shawl | B |
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| Do you remember I quite forget | F |
| Some childish foolishness that is all | B |
| To night is the first time we have met | F |
| Let me take off my Arabian shawl | B |
Katherine Mansfield
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