Protest: By Zahir-u-din Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBC DEDFEF GHGIHI JKJLKL MNMONO PQRSQS TUTVUV WXWYXY IZIYZY A2UA2OUO B2IB2TIT C2XXXXX XD2XTD2T UXUE2XF2| Alas alas this wasted Night | A |
| With all its Jasmin scented air | B |
| Its thousand stars serenely bright | A |
| I lie alone and long for you | C |
| Long for your Champa scented hair | B |
| Your tranquil eyes of twilight hue | C |
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| Long for the close curved delicate lips | D |
| Their sinuous sweetness laid on mine | E |
| Here where the slender fountain drips | D |
| Here where the yellow roses glow | F |
| Pale in the tender silver shine | E |
| The stars across the garden throw | F |
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| Alas alas poor passionate Youth | G |
| Why must we spend these lonely nights | H |
| The poets hardly speak the truth | G |
| Despite their praiseful litany | I |
| His season is not all delights | H |
| Nor every night an ecstasy | I |
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| The very power and passion that make | J |
| Might make his days one golden dream | K |
| How he must suffer for their sake | J |
| Till in their fierce and futile rage | L |
| The baffled senses almost deem | K |
| They might be happier in old age | L |
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| Age that can find red roses sweet | M |
| And yet not crave a rose red mouth | N |
| Hear Bulbuls with no wish that feet | M |
| Of sweeter singers went his way | O |
| Inhale warm breezes from the South | N |
| Yet never fed his fancy stray | O |
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| From some near Village I can hear | P |
| The cadenced throbbing of a drum | Q |
| Now softly distant now more near | R |
| And in an almost human fashion | S |
| It plaintive wistful seems to come | Q |
| Laden with sighs of fitful passion | S |
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| To mock me lying here alone | T |
| Among the thousand useless flowers | U |
| Upon the fountain's border stone | T |
| Cold stone that chills me as I lie | V |
| Counting the slowly passing hours | U |
| By the white spangles in the sky | V |
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| Some feast the Tom toms celebrate | W |
| Where close together side by side | X |
| Gay in their gauze and tinsel state | W |
| With lips serene and downcast eyes | Y |
| Sit the young bridegroom and his bride | X |
| While round them songs and laughter rise | Y |
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| They are together Why are we | I |
| So hopelessly so far apart | Z |
| Oh I implore you come to me | I |
| Come to me Solace of mine eyes | Y |
| Come Consolation of my heart | Z |
| Light of my senses What replies | Y |
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| A little languid mocking breeze | A2 |
| That rustles through the Jasmin flowers | U |
| And stirs among the Tamarind trees | A2 |
| A little gurgle of the spray | O |
| That drips unheard though silent hours | U |
| Then breaks in sudden bubbling play | O |
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| Wind have you never loved a rose | B2 |
| And water seek you not the Sea | I |
| Why therefore mock at my repose | B2 |
| Is it my fault I am alone | T |
| Beneath the feathery Tamarind tree | I |
| Whose shadows over me are thrown | T |
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| Nay I am mad indeed with thirst | C2 |
| For all to me this night denied | X |
| And drunk with longing and accurst | X |
| Beyond all chance of sleep or rest | X |
| With love unslaked unsatisfied | X |
| And dreams of beauty unpossessed | X |
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| Hating the hour that brings you not | X |
| Mad at the space betwixt us twain | D2 |
| Sad for my empty arms so hot | X |
| And fevered even the chilly stone | T |
| Can scarcely cool their burning pain | D2 |
| And oh this sense of being alone | T |
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| Take hence O Night your wasted hours | U |
| You bring me not my Life's Delight | X |
| My Star of Stars my Flower of Flowers | U |
| You leave me loveless and forlorn | E2 |
| Pass on most false and futile night | X |
| Pass on and perish in the Dawn | F2 |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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