Surface Rights Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG AHIH IJAJ CKLK ACMC ANON PQCQ PCRC ISTS AUAU| Drifting drifting down the River | A |
| Tawny current and foam flecked tide | B |
| Sorrowful songs of lonely boatmen | C |
| Mournful forests on either side | B |
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| Thine are the outcrops' glittering blocks | D |
| The quartz where the rich pyrites gleam | E |
| The golden treasure of unhewn rocks | D |
| And the loose gold in the stream | E |
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| But the dim vast forests along the shore | F |
| That whisper wonderful things o' nights | G |
| These are things that I value more | F |
| My beautiful surface rights | G |
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| Drifting drifting down the River | A |
| Stars a tremble about the sky | H |
| Ah my lover my heart is breaking | I |
| Breaking breaking I know not why | H |
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| Why is Love such a sorrowful thing | I |
| This I never could understand | J |
| Pain and passion are linked together | A |
| Ever I find them hand in hand | J |
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| Loose thy hair in its soft profusion | C |
| Let thy lashes caress thy cheek | K |
| These are the things that express thy spirit | L |
| What is the need to explain or speak | K |
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| Drifting drifting along the River | A |
| Under the light of a wan low moon | C |
| Steady the paddles Boatmen steady | M |
| Why should we reach the sea so soon | C |
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| See where the low spit cuts the water | A |
| What is that misty wavering light | N |
| Only the pale datura flowers | O |
| Blossoming through the silent night | N |
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| What is the fragrance in thy tresses | P |
| 'T is the scent of the champa's breath | Q |
| The meaning of champa bloom is passion | C |
| And of datura death | Q |
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| Sweet are thy ways and thy strange caresses | P |
| That sear as flame and exult as wine | C |
| But I care only for that wild moment | R |
| When my soul arises and reaches thine | C |
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| Wistful voices of wild birds calling | I |
| Far faint lightning towards the West | S |
| Twinkling lights of a Tyah homestead | T |
| Ruddy glow on a girl's bare breast | S |
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| Drifting boats on a mournful River | A |
| Shifting thoughts in a dreaming mind | U |
| We two seeking the Sea together | A |
| When we reach it what shall we find | U |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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