Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBC DBEDBCE FBFBGG HAIACI JKLJLJKBAJB| You are all that is lovely and light | A |
| Aziza whom I adore | B |
| And waking after the night | A |
| I am weary with dreams of you | C |
| Every nerve in my heart is tense and sore | B |
| As I rise to another morning apart from you | C |
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| I dream of your luminous eyes | D |
| Aziza whom I adore | B |
| Of the ruffled silk of your hair | E |
| I dream and the dreams are lies | D |
| But I love them knowing no more | B |
| Will ever be mine of you | C |
| Aziza my life's despair | E |
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| I would burn for a thousand days | F |
| Aziza whom I adore | B |
| Be tortured slain in unheard of ways | F |
| If you pitied the pain I bore | B |
| You pity Your bright eyes fastened on other things | G |
| Are keener to sting my soul than scorpion stings | G |
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| You are all that is lovely to me | H |
| All that is light | A |
| One white rose in a Desert of weariness | I |
| I only live in the night | A |
| The night with its fair false dreams of you | C |
| You and your loveliness | I |
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| Give me your love for a day | J |
| A night an hour | K |
| If the wages of sin are Death | L |
| I am willing to pay | J |
| What is my life but a breath | L |
| Of passion burning away | J |
| Away for an unplucked flower | K |
| O Aziza whom I adore | B |
| Aziza my one delight | A |
| Only one night I will die before day | J |
| And trouble your life no more | B |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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