The Regret Of The Ranee In The Hall Of Peacocks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ EKEK LGLG MNMN OJOJ PQPQ| This man has taken my Husband's life | A |
| And laid my Brethren low | B |
| No sister indeed were I no wife | A |
| To pardon and let him go | B |
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| Yet why does he look so young and slim | C |
| As he weak and wounded lies | D |
| How hard for me to be harsh to him | C |
| With his soft appealing eyes | D |
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| His hair is ruffled upon the stone | E |
| And the slender wrists are bound | F |
| So young and yet he has overthrown | E |
| His scores on the battle ground | F |
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| Would I were only a slave to day | G |
| To whom it were right and meet | H |
| To wash the stains of the War away | G |
| The dust from the weary feet | H |
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| Were I but one of my serving girls | I |
| To solace his pain to rest | J |
| Shake out the sand from the soft loose curls | I |
| And hold him against my breast | J |
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| Have we such beauty around our Throne | E |
| Such lithe and delicate strength | K |
| Would God that I were the senseless stone | E |
| To support his slender length | K |
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| I hate those wounds that trouble my sight | L |
| Unknown how I wish you lay | G |
| Alone in my silken tent to night | L |
| While I charmed the pain away | G |
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| I would lay you down on the Royal bed | M |
| I would bathe your wounds with wine | N |
| And setting your feet against my head | M |
| Dream you were lover of mine | N |
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| My Crown is heavy upon my hair | O |
| The Jewels weigh on my breast | J |
| All I would leave with delight to share | O |
| Your pale and passionate rest | J |
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| But hands grow restless about their swords | P |
| Lips murmur below their breath | Q |
| The Queen is silent too long My Lords | P |
| Take him away to death | Q |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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