There Is No Breeze To Cool The Heat Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL BABA KMKM NONO KPKP FBFB QMQM RSRS TUTU VLVL WXWX BABA| The listless Palm trees catch the breeze above | A |
| The pile built huts that edge the salt Lagoon | B |
| There is no Breeze to cool the heat of love | A |
| No wind from land or sea at night or noon | B |
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| Perfumed and robed I wait my Lord for you | C |
| And my heart waits alert with strained delight | D |
| My flowers are loath to close as though they knew | C |
| That you will come to me before the night | D |
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| In the Verandah all the lights are lit | E |
| And softly veiled in rose to please your eyes | F |
| Between the pillars flying foxes flit | E |
| Their wings transparent on the lilac skies | F |
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| Come soon my Lord come soon I almost fear | G |
| My heart may fail me in this keen suspense | H |
| Break with delight at last to know you near | G |
| Pleasure is one with Pain if too intense | H |
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| I envy these the steps that you will tread | I |
| The jasmin that will touch you by its leaves | J |
| When in your slender height you stoop your head | I |
| At the low door beneath the palm thatched eaves | J |
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| For though you utterly belong to me | K |
| And love has done his utmost 'twixt us twain | L |
| Your slightest careless touch yet seems to be | K |
| That keen delight so much akin to pain | L |
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| The night breeze blows across the still Lagoon | B |
| And stirs the Palm trees till they wave above | A |
| Our pile built huts Oh come my Lord come soon | B |
| There is no Breeze to cool the heat of love | A |
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| Every time you give yourself to me | K |
| The gift seems greater and yourself more fair | M |
| This slight built palm thatched hut has come to be | K |
| A temple since my Lord you visit there | M |
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| And as the water gurgling softly goes | N |
| Among the piles beneath the slender floor | O |
| I hear it murmur as it seaward flows | N |
| Of the great Wonder seen upon the shore | O |
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| The Miracle that you should come to me | K |
| Whom the whole world seeing can but desire | P |
| It is as though some White Star stooped to be | K |
| The messmate of our little cooking fire | P |
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| Leaving the Glory of his Purple Skies | F |
| And the White Friendship of the Crescent Moon | B |
| And yet I look into your brilliant eyes | F |
| And find content Oh come my Lord come soon | B |
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| Perfumed and robed I wait for you I wait | Q |
| The flowers that please you wreathed about my hair | M |
| And this poor face set forth in jewelled state | Q |
| So more than proud since you have found it fair | M |
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| My lute is ready and the fragrant drink | R |
| Your lips may honour how it will rejoice | S |
| Losing its life in yours the lute I think | R |
| But wastes the time when I might hear your voice | S |
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| But you desired it therefore I obey | T |
| Your slightest as your utmost wish or will | U |
| Whether it please you to caress or slay | T |
| It would please me to give obedience still | U |
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| I would delight to die beneath your kiss | V |
| I envy that young maiden who was slain | L |
| So her warm blood flowing beneath the kiss | V |
| Might ease the wounded Sultan of his pain | L |
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| If she loved him as I love you my Lord | W |
| There is no pleasure on the earth so sweet | X |
| As is the pain endured for one adored | W |
| If I lay crushed beneath your slender feet | X |
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| I should be happy Ah come soon come soon | B |
| See how the stars grow large and white above | A |
| The land breeze blows across the salt Lagoon | B |
| There is no Breeze to cool the heat of love | A |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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