Lost Delight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCC DEFE GHFH IJBJ DKLK MNEN OPQP ERSR ETST CACA UTST BVUU UWUX| After the Hazara War | A |
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| I lie alone beneath the Almond blossoms | B |
| Where we two lay together in the spring | C |
| And now as then the mountain snows are melting | C |
| This year as last the water courses sing | C |
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| That was another spring and other flowers | D |
| Hung pink and fragile on the leafless tree | E |
| The land rejoiced in other running water | F |
| And I rejoiced because you were with me | E |
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| You with your soft eyes darkly lashed and shaded | G |
| Your red lips like a living laughing rose | H |
| Your restless amber limbs so lithe and slender | F |
| Now lost to me Gone whither no man knows | H |
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| You lay beside me singing in the sunshine | I |
| The rough white fur unloosened at the neck | J |
| Showed the smooth skin fair as the Almond blossoms | B |
| On which the sun could find no flaw or fleck | J |
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| I lie alone beneath the Almond flowers | D |
| I hated them to touch you as they fell | K |
| And now who killed you worse Ah worse who loves you | L |
| My soul is burning as men burn in Hell | K |
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| How I have sought you in the crowded cities | M |
| I have been mad they say for many days | N |
| I know not how I came here to the valley | E |
| What fate has led me through what doubtful ways | N |
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| Somewhere I see my sword has done good service | O |
| Some one I killed who smiling used your name | P |
| But in what country Nay I have forgotten | Q |
| All thought is shrivelled in my heart's hot flame | P |
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| Where are you now Delight and where your beauty | E |
| Your subtle curls and laughing changeful face | R |
| Bound bruised and naked dear God grant me patience | S |
| And sold in Cabul in the market place | R |
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| I asked of you of all men Who could tell me | E |
| Among so many captured sold or slain | T |
| What fate was yours Ah dear God grant me patience | S |
| My heart is burnt is burnt with fire and pain | T |
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| Oh lost Delight my heart is almost breaking | C |
| My sword is broken and my feet are sore | A |
| The people look at me and say in passing | C |
| He will not leave the village any more | A |
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| For as the evening falls the fever rises | U |
| With frantic thoughts careering through the brain | T |
| Wild thoughts of you Ah dear God grant me patience | S |
| My soul is hurt beyond all men call pain | T |
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| I lie alone beneath the Almond blossoms | B |
| And see the white snow melting on the hills | V |
| Till Khorassan is gay with water courses | U |
| Glad with the tinkling sound of running rills | U |
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| And well I know that when the fragile petals | U |
| Fall softly ere the first green leaves appear | W |
| Ah for these last few days God grant me patience | U |
| Since Delight is not I shall not be here | X |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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