Feroza Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK LDLD| The evening sky was as green as Jade | A |
| As Emerald turf by Lotus lake | B |
| Behind the Kafila far she strayed | A |
| The Pearls are lost if the Necklace break | B |
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| A lingering freshness touched the air | C |
| From palm trees clustered around a Spring | D |
| The great grim Desert lay vast and bare | C |
| But Youth is ever a careless thing | D |
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| The Raiders threw her upon the sand | E |
| Men of the Wilderness know no laws | F |
| They tore the Amethysts off her hand | E |
| And rent the folds of her veiling gauze | F |
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| They struck the lips that they might have kissed | G |
| Pitiless they to her pain and fear | H |
| And wrenched the gold from her broken wrist | G |
| No use to cry there were none to hear | I |
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| Her scarlet mouth and her onyx eyes | J |
| Her braided hair in its silken sheen | K |
| Were surely meet for a Lover's prize | J |
| But Fate dissented and stepped between | K |
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| Across the Zenith the vultures fly | L |
| Cruel of beak and heavy of wing | D |
| Thus it was written that she should die | L |
| Inshallah Death is a transient thing | D |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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