Story Of Udaipore: Told By Lalla-ji, The Priest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DD EE FF CC GHGH II JJ HH KJ LL CHGH MM NN CHCH OI FF PP HH CHGH| And when the Summer Heat is great | A |
| And every hour intense | B |
| The Moghra with its subtle flowers | C |
| Intoxicates the sense | B |
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| The Coco palms stood tall and slim against the golden glow | D |
| And all their grey and graceful plumes were waving to and fro | D |
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| She lay forgetful in the boat and watched the dying Sun | E |
| Sink slowly lakewards while the stars replaced him one by one | E |
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| She saw the marble Temple walls long white reflections make | F |
| The echoes of their silvery bells were blown across the lake | F |
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| The evening air was very sweet from off the island bowers | C |
| Came scents of Moghra trees in bloom and Oleander flowers | C |
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| The Moghra flowers that smell so sweet | G |
| When love's young fancies play | H |
| The acrid Moghra flowers still sweet | G |
| Though love be burnt away | H |
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| The boat went drifting ucontrolled the rower rowed no more | I |
| But deftly turned the slender prow towards the further shore | I |
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| The dying sunset touched with gold the Jasmin in his hair | J |
| His eyes were darkly luminous she looked and found him fair | J |
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| And so persuasively he spoke she could not say him nay | H |
| And when his young hands took her own she smiled and let them stay | H |
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| And all the youth awake in him all love of Love in her | K |
| All scents of white and subtle flowers that filled the twilight air | J |
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| Combined together with the night in kind conspiracy | L |
| To do Love service while the boat went drifting onwards free | L |
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| The Moghra flowers the Moghra flowers | C |
| While Youth's quick pulses play | H |
| They are so sweet they still are sweet | G |
| Though passion burns away | H |
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| Low in the boat the lovers lay and from his sable curls | M |
| The Jasmin flowers slipped away to rest among the girl's | M |
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| Oh silver lake and silver night and tender silver sky | N |
| Where as the hours passed the moon rose white and cold on high | N |
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| The Moghra flowers the Moghra flowers | C |
| So dear to Youth at play | H |
| The small and subtle Moghra flowers | C |
| That only last a day | H |
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| Suddenly frightened she awoke and waking vaguely saw | O |
| The boat had stranded in the sedge that fringed the further shore | I |
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| The breeze grown chilly swayed the palms she heard still half awake | F |
| A prowling jackal's hungry cry blown faintly o'er the lake | F |
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| She shivered but she turned to kiss his soft remembered face | P |
| Lit by the pallid light he lay in Youth's abandoned grace | P |
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| But as her lips met his she paused in terror and dismay | H |
| The white moon showed her by her side asleep a Leper lay | H |
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| Ah Moghra flowers white Moghra flowers | C |
| All love is blind they say | H |
| The Moghra flowers so sweet so sweet | G |
| Though love be burnt away | H |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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