Kotri, By The River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFG HHII JJKK LLBB EEMM NNBB AAOO| At Kotri by the river when the evening's sun is low | A |
| The waving palm trees quiver the golden waters glow | A |
| The shining ripples shiver descending to the sea | B |
| At Kotri by the river she used to wait for me | B |
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| So young she was and slender so pale with wistful eyes | C |
| As luminous and tender as Kotri's twilight skies | C |
| Her face broke into flowers red flowers at the mouth | D |
| Her voice she sang for hours like bulbuls in the south | D |
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| We sat beside the water through burning summer days | E |
| And many things I taught her of Life and all its ways | E |
| Of Love man's loveliest duty of Passion's reckless pain | F |
| Of Youth whose transient beauty comes once but not again | G |
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| She lay and laughed and listened beside the water's edge | H |
| The glancing rirer glistened and glinted through the sedge | H |
| Green parrots flew above her and as the daylight died | I |
| Her young arms drew her lover more closely to her side | I |
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| Oh days so warm and golden oh nights so cool and still | J |
| When Love would not be holden and Pleasure had his will | J |
| Days when in after leisure content to rest we lay | K |
| Nights when her lips' soft pressure drained all my life away | K |
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| And while we sat together beneath the Babul trees | L |
| The fragrant sultry weather cooled by the river breeze | L |
| If passion faltered ever and left the senses free | B |
| We heard the tireless river decending to the sea | B |
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| I know not where she wandered or went in after days | E |
| Or if her youth she squandered in Love's more doubtful ways | E |
| Perhaps beside the river she died still young and fair | M |
| Perchance the grasses quiver above her slumber there | M |
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| At Kotri by the river maybe I too shall sleep | N |
| The sleep that lasts for ever too deep for dreams too deep | N |
| Maybe among the shingle and sand of floods to be | B |
| Her dust and mine may mingle and float away to sea | B |
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| Ah Kotri by the river when evening's sun is low | A |
| Your faint reflections quiver your golden ripples glow | A |
| You knew oh Kotri river that love which could not last | O |
| For me your palms still shiver with passions of the past | O |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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