Written In Cananore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB CC DE FF GG HH II A JKJLMM NN OO| I | A |
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| Who was it held that Love was soothing or sweet | B |
| Mine is a painful fire at its whitest heat | B |
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| Who said that Beauty was ever a gentle joy | C |
| Thine is a sword that flashes but to destroy | C |
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| Though mine eyes rose up from thy Beauty's banquet calm and refreshed | D |
| My lips that were granted naught can find no rest | E |
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| My soul was linked with thine through speech and silent hours | F |
| As the sound of two soft flutes combined or the scent of sister flowers | F |
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| But the body that wretched slave of the Sultan Mind | G |
| Who follows his master ever but far behind | G |
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| Nothing was granted him and every rebellious cell | H |
| Rises up with angry protest It is not well | H |
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| Night is falling thou hast departed I am alone | I |
| And the Last Sweetness of Love thou hast not given I have not known | I |
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| II | A |
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| Somewhere Oh My Beloved One the house is standing | J |
| Waiting for thee and me for our first caresses | K |
| It may be a river boat or a wave washed landing | J |
| The shade of a tree in the jungle's dim recesses | L |
| Some far off mountain tent ill pitched and lonely | M |
| Or the naked vault of the purple heavens only | M |
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| But the Place is waiting there till the Hour shall show it | N |
| And our footsteps following Fate find it and know it | N |
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| Where we shall worship the greatest of all the Gods in his pomp and power | O |
| I sometimes think that I shall not care to survive that hour | O |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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