Memory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCEEFDBF GHGHFIFGIFJJKDKG LMMJLB ABBLLLLNGNBLGB AB| How I loved you in your sleep | A |
| With the starlight on your hair | B |
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| The touch of your lips was sweet | C |
| Aziza whom I adore | D |
| I lay at your slender feet | C |
| And against their soft palms pressed | E |
| I fitted my face to rest | E |
| As winds blow over the sea | F |
| From Citron gardens ashore | D |
| Came through your scented hair | B |
| The breeze of the night to me | F |
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| My lips grew arid and dry | G |
| My nerves were tense | H |
| Though your beauty soothe the eye | G |
| It maddens the sense | H |
| Every curve of that beauty is known to me | F |
| Every tint of that delicate roseleaf skin | I |
| And these are printed on every atom of me | F |
| Burnt in on every fibre until I die | G |
| And for this my sin | I |
| I doubt if ever though dust I be | F |
| The dust will lose the desire | J |
| The torment and hidden fire | J |
| Of my passionate love for you | K |
| Aziza whom I adore | D |
| My dust will be full of your beauty as is the blue | K |
| And infinite ocean full of the azure sky | G |
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| In the light that waxed and waned | L |
| Playing about your slumber in silver bars | M |
| As the palm trees swung their feathery fronds athwart the stars | M |
| How quiet and young you were | J |
| Pale as the Champa flowers violet veined | L |
| That sweet and fading lay in your loosened hair | B |
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| How sweet you were in your sleep | A |
| With the starlight on your hair | B |
| Your throat thrown backwards bare | B |
| And touched with circling moonbeams silver white | L |
| On the couch's sombre shade | L |
| O Aziza my one delight | L |
| When Youth's passionate pulses fade | L |
| And his golden heart beats slow | N |
| When across the infinite sky | G |
| I see the roseate glow | N |
| Of my last last sunset flare | B |
| I shall send my thoughts to this night | L |
| And remember you as I die | G |
| The one thing among all the things of this earth found fair | B |
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| How sweet you were in your sleep | A |
| With the starlight silver and sable across your hair | B |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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