Song Of The Colours: By Taj Mahomed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBCC DEDE ACCCC ACAC FGGHH IIJJ KKLL AJAJ MCNCN LOLO APAP PPJPJCACA KPKPOCPC IAAAA QQPPRose colour | A |
Rose Pink am I the colour gleams and glows | B |
In many a flower her lips those tender doors | C |
By which in time of love love's essence flows | B |
From him to her are dyed in delicate Rose | B |
Mine is the earliest Ruby light that pours | C |
Out of the East when day's white gates unclose | C |
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On downy peach and maiden's downier cheek | D |
I in a flush of radiant bloom alight | E |
Clinging at sunset to the shimmering peak | D |
I veil its snow in floods of Roseate light | E |
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Azure | A |
Mine is the heavenly hue of Azure skies | C |
Where the white clouds lie soft as seraphs' wings | C |
Mine the sweet shadowed light in innocent eyes | C |
Whose lovely looks light only on lovely things | C |
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Mine the Blue Distance delicate and clear | A |
Mine the Blue Glory of the morning sea | C |
All that the soul so longs for finds not here | A |
Fond eyes deceive themselves and find in me | C |
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Scarlet | F |
Hail to the Royal Red of living Blood | G |
Let loose by steel in spirit freeing flood | G |
Forced from faint forms by toil or torture torn | H |
Staining the patient gates of life new born | H |
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Colour of War and Rage of Pomp and Show | I |
Banners that flash red flags that flaunt and glow | I |
Colour of Carnage Glory also Shame | J |
Raiment of women women may not name | J |
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I hide in mines where unborn Rubies dwell | K |
Flicker and flare in fitful fire in Hell | K |
The outpressed life blood of the grape is mine | L |
Hail to the Royal Purple Red of Wine | L |
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Strong am I over strong to eyes that tire | A |
In the hot hue of Rapine Riot Flame | J |
Death and Despair are black War and Desire | A |
The two red cards in Life's unequal game | J |
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Green | M |
I am the Life of Forests and Wandering Streams | C |
Green as the feathery reeds the Florican love | N |
Young as a maiden who of her marriage dreams | C |
Still sweetly inexperienced in ways of Love | N |
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Colour of Youth and Hope some waves are mine | L |
Some emerald reaches of the evening sky | O |
See in the Spring my sweet green Promise shine | L |
Never to be fulfilled of by and by | O |
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Never to be fulfilled leaves bud and ever | A |
Something is wanting something falls behind | P |
The flowered Solstice comes indeed but never | A |
That light and lovely summer men divined | P |
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Violet | P |
I were the colour of Things if hue they had | P |
That are hard to name | J |
Of curious twisted thoughts that men call mad | P |
Or oftener shame | J |
Of that delicate vice that is hardly vice | C |
So reticent rare | A |
Ethereal as the scent of buds and spice | C |
In this Eastern air | A |
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On palm fringed shores I colour the Cowrie shell | K |
With its edges curled | P |
And deep in Datura poison buds I dwell | K |
In a perfumed world | P |
My lilac tinges the edge of the evening sky | O |
Where the sunset clings | C |
My purple lends an Imperial Majesty | P |
To the robes of kings | C |
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Yellow | I |
Gold am I and for me ever men curse and pray | A |
Selling their souls and each other by night and day | A |
A sordid colour and yet I make some things fair | A |
Dying sunsets fields of corn and a maiden's hair | A |
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Thus they discoursed in the daytime Violet Yellow and Blue | Q |
Emerald Scarlet and Rose colour the pink and perfect hue | Q |
Thus they spoke in the sunshine when their beauty was manifest | P |
Till the Night came and the Silence and gave them an equal rest | P |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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