Third Song, Written During Fever (three Songs Of Zahir-u-din) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABC DAEDAF GAHGAH IJKIJK LIMLIM NOPNOP QRKQRK| To night the clouds hang very low | A |
| They take the Hill tops to their breast | B |
| And lay their arms about the fields | C |
| The wind that fans me lying low | A |
| Restless with great desire for rest | B |
| No cooling touch of freshness yields | C |
| - | |
| I sleepless through the stifling heat | D |
| Watch the pale Lightning's constant glow | A |
| Between the wide set open doors | E |
| I lie and long amidst the heat | D |
| The fever that my senses know | A |
| For that cool slenderness of yours | F |
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| So delicate and cool you are | G |
| A roseleaf that has lain in snow | A |
| A snowflake tinged with sunset fire | H |
| You do not know so young you are | G |
| How Fever fans the senses' glow | A |
| To uncontrollable desire | H |
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| And fills the spaces of the night | I |
| With furious and frantic thought | J |
| One would not dare to think by day | K |
| Ah if you came to me to night | I |
| These visions would be turned to naught | J |
| These hateful dreams be held at bay | K |
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| But you are far and Loneliness | L |
| My only lover through the night | I |
| And not for any word or prayer | M |
| Would you console my loneliness | L |
| Or lend yourself serene and slight | I |
| And the cool clusters of your hair | M |
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| All through the night I long for you | N |
| As shipwrecked men in tropics yearn | O |
| For the fresh flow of streams and springs | P |
| My fevered fancies follow you | N |
| As dying men in deserts turn | O |
| Their thoughts to clear and chilly things | P |
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| Such dreams are mine and such my thirst | Q |
| Unceasing and unsatisfied | R |
| Until the night is burnt away | K |
| Among these dreams and fevered thirst | Q |
| And through the open doorways glide | R |
| The white feet of the coming day | K |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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