The Convert Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDB EFEFCCGF HIHIJJKI| The sun was hot on the tamarind trees | A |
| Their shadows shrivelled and shrank | B |
| No coolness came on the off shore breeze | A |
| That rattled the scrub on the bank | B |
| She stretched her appealing arms to me | C |
| Uplifting the Flagon of Love to me | C |
| Till great indeed was my unslaked thirst | D |
| I paused I stooped and I drank | B |
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| I went with my foe to the edge of the crater | E |
| But no one to return we knew | F |
| The lava's heat had never been greater | E |
| Than the ire between us two | F |
| He flung back his head and he mocked at me | C |
| He spat unspeakable words at me | C |
| Our eyes met and our knives met | G |
| I saw red and I slew | F |
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| Such were my deeds when my youth was hot | H |
| And force was new to my hand | I |
| With many more that I tell thee not | H |
| Well known in my native land | I |
| These show thy Christ when thou prayest to Him | J |
| He too was a man thou sayest of Him | J |
| Therefore He when I reach His feet | K |
| Will remember and understand | I |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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