Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE DFDF FAFA DGDG FHFH FFFF FDFD ADAD| Softly the feathery Palm trees fade in the violet Distance | A |
| Faintly the lingering light touches the edge of the sea | B |
| Sadly the Music of Waves drifts faint as an Anthem's insistence | A |
| Heard in the aisles of a dream over the sandhills to me | B |
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| Now that the Lights are reversed and the Singing changed into sighing | C |
| Now that the wings of our fierce fugitive passion are furled | D |
| Take I unto myself all alone in the light that is dying | C |
| Much of the sorrow that lies hid at the Heart of the World | D |
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| Sad am I sad for your loss for failing the charm of your presence | A |
| Even the sunshine has paled leaving the Zenith less blue | E |
| Even the ocean lessens the light of its green opalescence | A |
| Since to my sorrow I loved loved and grew weary of you | E |
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| Why was our passion so fleeting why had the flush of your beauty | D |
| Only so slender a spell only so futile a power | F |
| Yet even thus ever is life save when long custom or duty | D |
| Moulds into sober fruit Love's fragile and fugitive flower | F |
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| Fain would my soul have been faithful never an alien pleasure | F |
| Lured me away from the light lit in your luminous eyes | A |
| But we have altered the World as pitiful man has leisure | F |
| To criticise balance take counsel assuredly lies | A |
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| All through the centuries Man has gathered his flower and fenced it | D |
| Infinite strife to attain infinite struggle to keep | G |
| Holding his treasure awhile all Fate and all forces against it | D |
| Knowing it his no more if ever his vigilance sleep | G |
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| But we have altered the World as pitiful man has grown stronger | F |
| So that the things we love are as easily kept as won | H |
| Therefore the ancient fight can engage and detain us no longer | F |
| And all too swiftly alas passion is over and done | H |
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| Far too speedily now we can gather the coveted treasure | F |
| Enjoy it awhile be satiated begin to tire | F |
| And what shall be done henceforth with the profitless after leisure | F |
| Who has the breath to kindle the ash of a faded fire | F |
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| Ah if it only had lasted After my ardent endeavour | F |
| Came the delirious Joy flooding my life like a sea | D |
| Days of delight that are burnt on the brain for ever and ever | F |
| Days and nights when you loved before you grew weary of me | D |
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| Softly the sunset decreases dim in the violet Distance | A |
| Even as Love's own fervour has faded away from me | D |
| Leaving the weariness the monotonous Weight of Existence | A |
| All the farewells in the world weep in the sound of the sea | D |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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