Feroke Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GCGC| The rice birds fly so white so silver white | A |
| The velvet rice flats lie so emerald green | B |
| My heart inhales with sorrowful delight | A |
| The sweet and poignant sadness of the scene | B |
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| The swollen tawny river seeks the sea | C |
| Its hungry waters never satisfied | D |
| Beflecked with fallen log and torn up tree | C |
| Engulph the fisher huts on either side | D |
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| The current brought a stranger yesterday | E |
| And laid him on the sand beneath a palm | F |
| His worn young face was partly torn away | E |
| His eyes that saw the world no more were calm | F |
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| We could not close his eyelids stiff with blood | G |
| But oh my brother I had changed with thee | C |
| For I am still tormented in the flood | G |
| Whilst thou hast done thy work and reached the sea | C |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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