Second Song (three Songs Of Zahir-u-din) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDC EFEFFE GBHGGFEHE FFEEFEE| How much I loved that way you had | A |
| Of smiling most when very sad | A |
| A smile which carried tender hints | B |
| Of delicate tints | B |
| And warbling birds | C |
| Of sun and spring | D |
| And yet more than all other thing | D |
| Of Weariness beyond all Words | C |
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| None other ever smiled that way | E |
| None that I know | F |
| The essence of all Gaiety lay | E |
| Of all mad mirth that men may know | F |
| In that sad smile serene and slow | F |
| That on your lips was wont to play | E |
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| It needed many delicate lines | G |
| And subtle curves and roseate tints | B |
| To make that weary radiant smile | H |
| It flickered as beneath the vines | G |
| The sunshine through green shadow glints | G |
| On the pale path that lies below | F |
| Flickered and flashed and died away | E |
| But the strange thoughts it woke meanwhile | H |
| Were wont to stay | E |
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| Thoughts of Strange Things you used to know | F |
| In dim dead lives lived long ago | F |
| Some madly mirthful Merriment | E |
| Whose lingering light is yet unspent | E |
| Some unimaginable Woe | F |
| Your strange sad smile forgets these not | E |
| Though you yourself long since forgot | E |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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