Lallji My Desire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAAB DEFEGHAHAAEDDE IAJAEAKAAAEDDE DBLBEDDDAAEAAE| This is no time for saying 'no' | A |
| Were thy last words to me | B |
| And yet my lips refused the kiss | C |
| They might have given thee | B |
| How could I know | A |
| That thou wouldst go | A |
| To sleep so far from me | B |
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| They took thee to the Burning Ghat | D |
| Oh Lallji my desire | E |
| And now a faint and lonely flame | F |
| Uprises from the pyre | E |
| The thin grey smoke in spirals drifts | G |
| Across the opal sky | H |
| Would that I were a wife of thine | A |
| And thus with thee could die | H |
| How could I know | A |
| That thou wouldst go | A |
| Oh Lallji my desire | E |
| The lips I missed | D |
| The flames have kissed | D |
| Upon the Sandal pyre | E |
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| If one should meet me with a knife | I |
| And cut my heart in twain | A |
| Then would he see the smoke arise | J |
| From every severed vein | A |
| Such is the burning inward fire | E |
| The anguish of my pain | A |
| For my Beloved whose dying lips | K |
| Implored a kiss in vain | A |
| How could I know | A |
| That thou wouldst go | A |
| Oh Lallji my desire | E |
| Too young thou art | D |
| To lay thy heart | D |
| Upon the Sandal pyre | E |
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| Thy wife awaits her coming child | D |
| What were a child to me | B |
| If I might take thee in these arms | L |
| And face the flames with thee | B |
| The priests are chanting round the pyre | E |
| At dusk they will depart | D |
| And leave to thee thy lonely rest | D |
| To me my lonelier heart | D |
| How could I know | A |
| Thou lovedst me so | A |
| Upon the Sandal pyre | E |
| He lies forsaken | A |
| The flames have taken | A |
| My Lallji my desire | E |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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