Deserted Gipsy's Song: Hillside Camp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DBDB EBEB FBFB GBGB EBEB| She is glad to receive your turquoise ring | A |
| Dear and dark eyed Lover of mine | B |
| I to have given you everything | A |
| Beauty maddens the soul like Wine | B |
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| She is proud to have held aloof her charms | C |
| Slender dark eyed Lover of mine | B |
| But I of the night you lay in my arms | C |
| Beauty maddens the sense like Wine | B |
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| She triumphs to think that your heart is won | D |
| Stately dark eyed Lover of mine | B |
| I had not a thought of myself not one | D |
| Beauty maddens the brain like Wine | B |
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| She will speak you softly while skies are blue | E |
| Dear deluded Lover of mine | B |
| I would lose both body and soul for you | E |
| Beauty maddens the brain like Wine | B |
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| While the ways are fair she will love you well | F |
| Dear disdainful Lover of mine | B |
| But I would have followed you down to Hell | F |
| Beauty maddens the soul like Wine | B |
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| Though you lay at her feet the days to be | G |
| Now no longer Lover of mine | B |
| You can give her naught that you gave not me | G |
| Beauty maddened my soul like Wine | B |
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| When the years have shown what is false or true | E |
| Beauty maddens the sight like Wine | B |
| You will understand how I cared for you | E |
| First and only Lover of mine | B |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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