Song Of The Peri Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAE FGHG IJKJ LAMA NOPO AQAQ ARAR SATA| Beauty the Gift of Gifts I give to thee | A |
| Pleasure and love shall spring around thy feet | B |
| As through the lake the lotuses arise | C |
| Pinkly transparent and divinely sweet | B |
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| I give thee eyes aglow like morning stars | D |
| Delicate brows a mist of sable tresses | E |
| That all the journey of thy lie may be | A |
| Lit up by love and softened by caresses | E |
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| For those who once were proud and softly bred | F |
| Shall kneeling wait thee as thou passest by | G |
| They who were pure shall stretch forth eager hands | H |
| Crying Thy pity Lord before we die | G |
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| And one shall murmur If the sun at dawn | I |
| Shall open and caress a happy flower | J |
| What blame to him although the blossom fade | K |
| In the full splendour of his noontide power | J |
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| And one If aloes close together grow | L |
| It well may chance a plant shall wounded be | A |
| Pierced by the thorntips of another's leaves | M |
| Thus am I hurt unconsciously by thee | A |
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| For some shall die and many more shall sin | N |
| Suffering for thy sake till seven times seven | O |
| Because of those most perfect lips of thine | P |
| Which held the power to make or mar their heaven | O |
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| And though thou givest back but cruelty | A |
| Their love persistent shall not heed nor care | Q |
| All those whose ears are fed with blame of thee | A |
| Shall say It may be so but he was fair | Q |
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| Ay those who lost the whole of youth for thee | A |
| Made early and for ever shamed and sad | R |
| Shall sigh re living some sweet memory | A |
| Ah once it was his will to make me glad | R |
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| Thy nights shall be as bright as summer days | S |
| The sequence of thy sins shall seem as duty | A |
| Since I have given thee Oh Gift of Gifts | T |
| The pale perfection of unrivalled beauty | A |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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