Vayu The Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDA EFGH IJKLMNOPMQPLRSTQU AVMAWXY NZXGA2B2C2 D2AE2AD2YF2| Ah Wind I have always loved thee | A |
| Since those far off nights | B |
| When I lay beneath the vines | C |
| A prey to strange delights | B |
| For among my tresses | D |
| Thy soft caresses | D |
| Were sweet as a lover's to me | A |
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| Later thou grewest more wanton or I more shy | E |
| And after the bath I drew my garments close | F |
| Fearing thy soft persuasion amongst my hair | G |
| When thou camest fresh with the scent of some ruffled rose | H |
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| Ah Wind thou hast lain with the Desert | I |
| I know her savour well | J |
| And the spices wherewith she scents her breasts | K |
| She who has known such countless lovers | L |
| Yet rarely borne a city among her sands | M |
| Thou comest as one from a night of love | N |
| Thy breath is broken and hard | O |
| Bringing echoes of lonely things | P |
| Vast and cruel that the soft and golden sands | M |
| Buried beneath thin ripples so long ago | Q |
| Ah Wind thou hast given me lovely things | P |
| The scent of a thousand flowers | L |
| And the heavy perfume of pollen laden fields | R |
| Strange snatches of wild song from the heart of the dark Bazaar | S |
| That thrilled to my very core | T |
| Till I threw the sheet aside and rose to follow | Q |
| But whither or what | U |
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| Also Wind thou broughtest the breath of the sea | A |
| The sound of its myriad waves | V |
| And in nights when I lay on the lonely sands | M |
| Stretching mine arms to thee | A |
| Thou gavest me something faint and vast and sweet | W |
| Something ineffable wistful from far away | X |
| Elsewhere Beyond | Y |
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| And thou wast kind to me in my times of love | N |
| Cooling my lips | Z |
| That my lover wore away | X |
| While wafting the scent from his divided hair | G |
| Thou show'dst the stars between | A2 |
| Far away and eclipsed by his burning eyes | B2 |
| Even the stars | C2 |
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| And now I almost foresee the place and the hour | D2 |
| When I shall open my dying lips to thee | A |
| And receive a last cool kiss | E2 |
| Afterwards Wind since I have always loved thee | A |
| Whirl my dust to the scented heart of a moghra flower | D2 |
| His flower but ah thou knowest | Y |
| So often thy kisses have mingled with his and mine | F2 |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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