Ojira, To Her Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GEHI EJHJ IKLK IMNM HEEE IOPO HQOQI am waiting in the desert looking out towards the sunset | A |
And counting every moment till we meet | B |
I am waiting by the marshes and I tremble and I listen | C |
Till the soft sands thrill beneath your coming feet | B |
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Till I see you tall and slender standing clear against the skyline | D |
A graceful shade across the lingering red | E |
While your hair the breezes ruffle turns to silver in the twilight | F |
And makes a fair faint aureole round your head | E |
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Far away towards the sunset I can see a narrow river | G |
That unwinds itself in red tranquillity | E |
I can hear its rippled meeting and the gurgle of its greeting | H |
As it mingles with the loved and long sought sea | I |
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In the purple sky above me showing dark against the starlight | E |
Long wavering flights of homeward birds fly low | J |
They cry each one to the other and their weird and wistful calling | H |
Makes most melancholy music as they go | J |
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Oh my dearest hasten hasten It is lonely here Already | I |
Have I heard the jackals' first assembling cry | K |
And among the purple shadows of the mangroves and the marshes | L |
Fitful echoes of their footfalls passing by | K |
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Ah come soon my arms are empty and so weary for your beauty | I |
I am thirsty for the music of your voice | M |
Come to make the marshes joyous with the sweetness of your presence | N |
Let your nearing feet bid all the sands rejoice | M |
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My hands my lips are feverish with the longing and the waiting | H |
And no softness of the twilight soothes their heat | E |
Till I see your radiant eyes shining stars beneath the starlight | E |
Till I kiss the slender coolness of your feet | E |
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Ah loveliest most reluctant when you lay yourself beside me | I |
All the planets reel around me fade away | O |
And the sands grow dim uncertain I stretch out my hands towards you | P |
While I try to speak but know not what I say | O |
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I am faint with love and longing and my burning eyes are gazing | H |
Where the furtive Jackals wage their famished strife | Q |
Oh your shadow on the mangroves and your step upon the sandhills | O |
This is the loveliest evening of my Life | Q |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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