Afridi Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKJK LMFM ANAN ALLL OBPB QFRF PHSH DHJH RERE LTLT JUFU UFHF JVFV FWXW FYFY| Since Oh Beloved you are not even faithful | A |
| To me who loved you so for one short night | B |
| For one brief space of darkness though my absence | C |
| Did but endure until the dawning light | B |
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| Since all your beauty which was mine you squandered | D |
| On that which now lies dead across your door | E |
| See here this knife made keen and bright to kill you | F |
| You shall not see the sun rise any more | E |
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| Lie still Lie still In all the empty village | G |
| Who is there left to hear or heed your cry | H |
| All are gone to labour in the valley | I |
| Who will return before your time to die | H |
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| No use to struggle when I found you sleeping | J |
| I took your hands and bound them to your side | K |
| And both these slender feet too apt at straying | J |
| Down to the cot on which you lie are tied | K |
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| Lie still Beloved that dead thing lying yonder | L |
| I hated and I killed but love is sweet | M |
| And you are more than sweet to me who love you | F |
| Who decked my eyes with dust from off your feet | M |
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| Give me your lips Ah lovely and disloyal | A |
| Give me yourself again before you go | N |
| Down through the darkness of the Great Blind Portal | A |
| All of life's best and basest you must know | N |
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| Erstwhile Beloved you were so young and fragile | A |
| I held you gently as one holds a flower | L |
| But now God knows what use to still be tender | L |
| To one whose life is done within an hour | L |
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| I hurt What then Death will not hurt you dearest | O |
| As you hurt me for just a single night | B |
| You call me cruel who laid my life in ruins | P |
| To gain one little moment of delight | B |
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| Look up look out across the open doorway | Q |
| The sunlight streams The distant hills are blue | F |
| Look at the pale pink peach trees in our garden | R |
| Sweet fruit will come of them but not for you | F |
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| The fair far snow upon those jagged mountains | P |
| That gnaw against the hard blue Afghan sky | H |
| Will soon descend set free by summer sunshine | S |
| You will not see those torrents sweeping by | H |
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| The world is not for you From this day forward | D |
| You must lie still alone who would not lie | H |
| Alone for one night only though returning | J |
| I was when earliest dawn should break the sky | H |
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| There lies my lute and many strings are broken | R |
| Some one was playing it and some one tore | E |
| The silken tassels round my Hookah woven | R |
| Some one who plays and smokes and loves no more | E |
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| Some one who took last night his fill of pleasure | L |
| As I took mine at dawn The knife went home | T |
| Straight through his heart God only knows my rapture | L |
| Bathing my chill hands in the warm red foam | T |
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| And so I pain you This is only loving | J |
| Wait till I kill you Ah this soft curled hair | U |
| Surely the fault was mine to love and leave you | F |
| Even a single night you are so fair | U |
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| Cold steel is very cooling to the fervour | U |
| Of over passionate ones Beloved like you | F |
| Nay turn your lips to mine Not quite unlovely | H |
| They are as yet as yet though quite untrue | F |
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| What will your brother say to night returning | J |
| With laden camels homewards to the hills | V |
| Finding you dead and me asleep beside you | F |
| Will he awake me first before he kills | V |
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| For I shall sleep Here on the cot beside you | F |
| When you my Heart's Delight are cold in death | W |
| When your young heart and restless lips are silent | X |
| Grown chilly even beneath my burning breath | W |
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| When I have slowly drawn my knife across you | F |
| Taking my pleasure as I see you swoon | Y |
| I shall sleep sound worn out by love's last fervour | F |
| And then God grant your kinsmen kill me soon | Y |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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