Malay Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GAGA HIHI JKJK LMLM| The Stars await serene and white | A |
| The unarisen moon | B |
| Oh come and stay with me to night | A |
| Beside the salt Lagoon | B |
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| My hut is small but as you lie | C |
| You see the lighted shore | D |
| And hear the rippling water sigh | C |
| Beneath the pile raised floor | D |
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| No gift have I of jewels or flowers | E |
| My room is poor and bare | F |
| But all the silver sea is ours | E |
| And all the scented air | F |
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| Blown from the mainland where there grows | G |
| Th' Intriguer of the Night | A |
| The flower that you have named Tube rose | G |
| Sweet scented slim and white | A |
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| The flower that when the air is still | H |
| And no land breezes blow | I |
| From its pale petals can distil | H |
| A phosphorescent glow | I |
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| I see your ship at anchor ride | J |
| Her captive lightning shine | K |
| Before she takes to morrow's tide | J |
| Let this one night be mine | K |
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| Though in the language of your land | L |
| My words are poor and few | M |
| Oh read my eyes and understand | L |
| I give my youth to you | M |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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