Reverie: Zahir-u-din Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFEGGE HIHI JKLK MNMNMMN| Alone I wait till her twilight gate | A |
| The Night slips quietly through | B |
| With shadow and gloom and purple bloom | C |
| Flung over the Zenith blue | B |
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| Her stars that tremble would fain dissemble | D |
| Light over lovers thrown | E |
| Her hush and mystery know no history | F |
| Such as day may own | E |
| Day has record of pleasure and pain | G |
| But things that are done by Night remain | G |
| For ever and ever unknown | E |
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| For a thousand years 'neath a thousand skies | H |
| Night has brought men love | I |
| Therefore the old old longings rise | H |
| As the light grows dim above | I |
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| Therefore now that the shadows close | J |
| And the mists weird and white | K |
| While Time is scented with musk and rose | L |
| Magic with silver light | K |
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| I long for love will you grant me some | M |
| Day is over at last | N |
| Come as lovers have always come | M |
| Through the evenings of the Past | N |
| Swiftly as lovers have always come | M |
| Softly as lovers have always come | M |
| Through the long forgotten Past | N |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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