Sunstroke Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ ABAB| Oh straight white road that runs to meet | A |
| Across green fields the blue green sea | B |
| You knew the little weary feet | A |
| Of my child bride that was to be | B |
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| Her people brought her from the shore | C |
| One golden day in sultry June | D |
| And I stood waiting at the door | C |
| Praying my eyes might see her soon | D |
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| With eager arms wide open thrown | E |
| Now never to be satisfied | F |
| Ere I could make my love my own | E |
| She closed her amber eyes and died | F |
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| Alas alas they took no heed | G |
| How frail she was my little one | H |
| But brought her here with cruel speed | G |
| Beneath the fierce relentless sun | H |
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| We laid her on the marriage bed | I |
| The bridal flowers in her hand | J |
| A maiden from the ocean led | I |
| Only alas to die inland | J |
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| I walk alone the air is sweet | A |
| The white road wanders to the sea | B |
| I dream of those two little feet | A |
| That grew so tired in reaching me | B |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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