Behram And Eddetma Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UA VHRWXJYRZA2A2B2VC2D2 RE2F2RG2H2I2J2K2L2M2 RRRN2RO2P2Q2R2VO2P2P 2I2P2S2T2I2WU2P2RRV2 P2RRW2W2P RX2P2NY2 P2P2RP2Z2P2RRP2A3RP2 B3T2P2P2P2RC3P2DP2RZ 2R W2RD3E3P2RRF3R2P2 RP2P2P2RP2O2RP2T2RRD P2R2O2T2RRC G3RRR2F2H3R H2PRRRP2RRI3P2P2P2S2 P2B2RRO2RJ3RRP| Against each prince now she had held her own | A |
| An easy victor for the seven years | B |
| O'er kings and sons of kings Eddetma she | C |
| Who when much sought in marriage hating men | D |
| Espoused their ways to win beyond their worth | E |
| Through martial exercise and hero deeds | F |
| She who accomplished in all warlike arts | G |
| Let cry through every kingdom of the kings | H |
| Eddetma weds with none but him who proves | I |
| Himself her master in the push of arms | J |
| Her suitor's foeman she And he who fails | K |
| So overcome of woman woman scorned | L |
| Disarmed dishonored yet shall he depart | M |
| Brow bearing forehead stigmatized with fire | N |
| 'Behold a freedman of Eddetma this ' | O |
| Let cry and many princes put to shame | P |
| Pretentious courtiers small in thew and thigh | Q |
| Proud palanquined from principalities | R |
| Of Irak and of Hind and farther Sind | S |
| Though she was queenly as that Empress of | T |
| The proud Amalekites Tedmureh and | U |
| More beautiful yet she had held her own | A |
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| To Behram of the Territories one | V |
| Son of a Persian monarch swaying kings | H |
| Came bruit of her and her noised victories | R |
| Her maiden beauty and her warrior strength | W |
| Eastward he journeyed from his father's court | X |
| With men and steeds and store of wealth and arms | J |
| To the rich city where her father reigned | Y |
| Its seven citadels by Seven Seas | R |
| And messengered the monarch with a gift | Z |
| Of savage vessels wroughten out of gold | A2 |
| Of foreign fabrics stiff with gems and gold | A2 |
| Vizier ambassadored the old king gave | B2 |
| His answer to the suitor I my son | V |
| What grace have I above the grace of God | C2 |
| What power is mine but a material | D2 |
| What rule have I unto the substanceless | R |
| Me than the shadow of the Prophet's shade | E2 |
| Less God invests with power but of man | F2 |
| Man and the right beyond man's right is God's | R |
| His the dominion of the secret soul | G2 |
| And His her soul Now hath my daughter sworn | H2 |
| By all her vestal soul that none shall know | I2 |
| Her but her better in the listed field | J2 |
| Determining spear and sword Grant Fate thy trust | K2 |
| She hangs her hand upon to morrow's joust | L2 |
| A prize to win My greeting and farewell | M2 |
| Informed Eddetma and the lists arose | R |
| Armored and keen with a Chorasmian mace | R |
| Davidean hauberk came she Her the prince | R |
| Harnessed in scaly gold Arabian met | N2 |
| So clanged the prologue of the battle As | R |
| Closer it waxed Prince Behram who a while | O2 |
| Withheld his valor in that she he loved | P2 |
| Opposed him and beset him woman whom | Q2 |
| He had not scathed for the Chosro s' wealth | R2 |
| Beheld his madness how he were undone | V |
| With shining shame unless he strove withal | O2 |
| Whirled fiery sword and smote the bassinet | P2 |
| Rushed from the haughty face that long had scorned | P2 |
| The wide world's vanquished royalty and so | I2 |
| Rushed on his own defeat For like unto | P2 |
| A moon gray clouds have caverned all the eve | S2 |
| The thunder splits and virgin triumph there | T2 |
| She sails a silver aspect vanquished so | I2 |
| Was Behram by his blow A wavering strength | W |
| Swerved in its purpose with no final stroke | U2 |
| Stunned stood he and surrendered stared and stared | P2 |
| All his strong life absorbed into her face | R |
| All the wild warrior arrowed by her eyes | R |
| Tamed and obedient to lip and look | V2 |
| Then she on him as condor on a kite | P2 |
| Plunged pitiless and beautiful and fierce | R |
| One trophy more to added victories | R |
| Haled off his arms amazement dazing him | W2 |
| Seized steed and garb confusion filling him | W2 |
| And scoffed him forth brow branded with his shame | P |
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| Dazzled six days he sat a staring trance | R |
| But on the seventh casting stupor off | X2 |
| Rose and the straitness of the case that held | P2 |
| Him as with manacles of knitted fire | N |
| Considered and decided on a way | Y2 |
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| Once when Eddetma with a houri band | P2 |
| Of high born damsels under eunuch guard | P2 |
| In the walled palace pleasaunce took her ease | R |
| Under a myrrh bush by a fountain side | P2 |
| Where Afrits' nostrils snorted diamond rain | Z2 |
| In scooped cornelian one a dim hoar head | P2 |
| A patriarch mid gardener underlings | R |
| Bent spreading gems and priceless ornaments | R |
| Of jewelled amulets of hollow gold | P2 |
| Sweet with imprisoned ambergris and musk | A3 |
| Symbolic stones in sorcerous carcanets | R |
| Gem talismans in cabalistic gold | P2 |
| Whereon the princess marvelled and bade ask | B3 |
| What did the elder with his riches there | T2 |
| Who questioned mumbled in his bushy beard | P2 |
| To buy a wife withal whereat they laughed | P2 |
| As oafs when wisdom stumbles Quoth a maid | P2 |
| With orient midnight in her starry eyes | R |
| And tropic music on her languid tongue | C3 |
| And what if I should wed with thee O beard | P2 |
| Grayer than my great grandfather's what then | D |
| One kiss no more and child thou wert divorced | P2 |
| He and the humor took them till the birds | R |
| That listened in the spice tree and the plane | Z2 |
| Sang gayly of the gray beard and his kiss | R |
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| Then quoth the princess Thou wilt wed with him | W2 |
| Ansada mirth in her two eyes' gazelles | R |
| And gravity bird nestled in her speech | D3 |
| And took Ansada's hand and laid it in | E3 |
| The old man's staggering hand and he unbent | P2 |
| Thin wrinkled brows and on his staff arose | R |
| Weighed with the weight of many heavy years | R |
| And kissed her leaning on his shaking staff | F3 |
| And heaped her bosom with an Amir's wealth | R2 |
| And left them laughing at his foolish beard | P2 |
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| Now on the next day as she took her ease | R |
| With her glad troop of girlhood maidens who | P2 |
| So many royal tulips seemed behold | P2 |
| Bowed with white years upon a flowery sward | P2 |
| The ancient with new jewelry and gems | R |
| Wherefrom the sun coaxed wizard fires and lit | P2 |
| Glimmers in glowing green and pendent pearl | O2 |
| Ultramarine and beaded vivid rose | R |
| And so they stood to wonder and one asked | P2 |
| As yesternoon wherefore the father there | T2 |
| Displayed his Sheikh locks and the genie gems | R |
| Another marriage and another kiss | R |
| What doth the tomb ripe court his youth again | D |
| O aged libertine in wish not deed | P2 |
| O prodigal of wives as well as wealth | R2 |
| Here stands thy damsel trilled the Peri tall | O2 |
| Diarra with the raven in her hair | T2 |
| Two lemon flowers blowing in her cheeks | R |
| And took the dotard's jewels with the kiss | R |
| In merry mockery | C |
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| Ere the morrow's dawn | G3 |
| Bethought Eddetma Shall my handmaidens | R |
| Teasing a gray beard's whim to wrinkled smiles | R |
| For withered kisses still divide his wealth | R2 |
| While I stand idle lose the caravan | F2 |
| Whose least is notable My right and mine | H3 |
| Betide me what betides | R |
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| And with the morn | H2 |
| Before the man for privily she came | P |
| Stood habited as of her tire maids | R |
| In humble raiment Now the ancient saw | R |
| And knew her for the princess that she was | R |
| And kindling gladness of the knowledge made | P2 |
| Two sparkling forges of his deep dark eyes | R |
| Beneath the ashes of his priestly brows | R |
| Not timidly she came but coy approach | I3 |
| Became the maiden of Eddetma's suite | P2 |
| And humbly answered he All my old heart | P2 |
| Responsive to her quavering request | P2 |
| The daughter of the king did give thee leave | S2 |
| And thou wouldst well Then wed with me forth right | P2 |
| Thy hand thy lips So he arose and gave | B2 |
| Her of barbaric jewelry and gems | R |
| And seized her hand and from her lips the kiss | R |
| When from his age behold the dotage fell | O2 |
| And from the man all palsied hoariness | R |
| Victorious eyed and amorous with youth | J3 |
| A god in ardent capabilities | R |
| Resistless held her and she swooning saw | R |
| Gloating the branded brow of Prince Behram | P |
Madison Julius Cawein
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