Clothes Chapter X Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D B B E B B F B E| And the weaver said Speak to us of Clothes | A |
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| And he answered | B |
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| Your clothes conceal much of your beauty yet they hide not the unbeautiful | C |
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| And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain | D |
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| Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your raiment | B |
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| For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind | B |
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| Some of you say It is the north wind who has woven the clothes to wear | E |
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| But shame was his loom and the softening of the sinews was his thread | B |
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| And when his work was done he laughed in the forest | B |
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| Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean | F |
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| And when the unclean shall be no more what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind | B |
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| And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair | E |
Khalil Gibran
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