The Tom-toms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAAB CDEAAE AAFGGF HHIGGI CCBCCB| Dost thou hear the tom toms throbbing | A |
| Like a lonely lover sobbing | A |
| For the beauty that is robbing him of all his life's delight | B |
| Plaintive sounds restrained enthralling | A |
| Seeking through the twilight falling | A |
| Something lost beyond recalling in the darkness of the night | B |
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| Oh my little loved Firoza | C |
| Come and nestle to me closer | D |
| Where the golden balled Mimosa makes a canopy above | E |
| For the day so hot and burning | A |
| Dies away and night returning | A |
| Sets thy lover's spirit yearning for thy beauty and thy love | E |
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| Soon will come the rosy warning | A |
| Of the bright relentless morning | A |
| When thy soft caresses scorning I shall leave thee in the shade | F |
| All the day my work must chain me | G |
| And its weary bonds restrain me | G |
| For I may not re attain thee till the light begins to fade | F |
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| But at length the long day endeth | H |
| As the cool of night descendeth | H |
| His last strength thy lover spendeth in returning to thy breast | I |
| Where beneath the Babul nightly | G |
| While the planets shimmer whitely | G |
| And the fire flies glimmer brightly thou shalt give him love and rest | I |
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| Far away across the distance | C |
| The quick throbbing drums' persistence | C |
| Shall resound with soft insistence in the pauses of delight | B |
| Through the sequence of the hours | C |
| While the starlight and the flowers | C |
| Consecrate this love of ours in the Temple of the Night | B |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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