The Nizam-s Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IDIDJKJK LFLFMNMN OPOPQRQR STSTUVUV SWSXSNSN| SHE is yet a child in years | A |
| Twelve springs are on her face | B |
| Yet in her slender form appears | A |
| The woman's perfect grace | B |
| Her silken hair that glossy black | C |
| But only to be found | D |
| There or upon the raven's back | C |
| Falls sweeping to the ground | D |
| - | |
| 'Tis parted in two shining braids | E |
| With silver and with gold | F |
| And one large pearl by contrast aids | E |
| The darkness of each fold | F |
| And for she is so young that flowers | G |
| Seem natural to her now | H |
| There wreaths the champac's snowy showers | G |
| Around her sculptured brow | H |
| - | |
| Close to her throat the silvery vest | I |
| By shining clasps is bound | D |
| Scarce may her graceful shape be guest | I |
| Mid drapery floating round | D |
| But the small curve of that veined throat | J |
| Like marble but more warm | K |
| The fairy foot and hand denote | J |
| How perfect is the form | K |
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| Upon the ankle and the wrist | L |
| There is a band of gold | F |
| No step by Grecian fountain kiss'd | L |
| Was of diviner mould | F |
| In the bright girdle round her waist | M |
| Where the red rubies shine | N |
| The kandjar's glittering hilt is placed | M |
| To mark her royal line | N |
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| Her face is like the moonlight pale | O |
| Strangely and purely fair | P |
| For never summer sun nor gale | O |
| Has touched the softness there | P |
| There are no colours of the rose | Q |
| Alone the lip is red | R |
| No blush disturbs the sweet repose | Q |
| Which o'er that cheek is shed | R |
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| And yet the large black eyes like night | S |
| Have passion and have power | T |
| Within their sleepy depths is light | S |
| For some wild wakening hour | T |
| A world of sad and tender dreams | U |
| 'Neath those long lashes sleep | V |
| A native pensiveness that seems | U |
| Too still and sweet to weep | V |
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| Of such seclusion know we nought | S |
| Yet surely woman here | W |
| Grows shrouded from all common thought | S |
| More delicate and dear | X |
| And love thus made a thing apart | S |
| Must seem the more divine | N |
| When the sweet temple of the heart | S |
| Is a thrice veiled shrine | N |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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