Oriental Romance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCCDED A FFFGGHGD A IIJKKLKM F NNNOOPOP| I | A |
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| Beyond lost seas of summer she | B |
| Dwelt on an island of the sea | B |
| Last scion of that dynasty | B |
| Queen of a race forgotten long | C |
| With eyes of light and lips of song | C |
| From seaward groves of blowing lemon | D |
| She called me in her native tongue | E |
| Low leaned on some rich robe of Yemen | D |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| I was a king Three moons we drove | F |
| Across green gulfs the crimson clove | F |
| And cassia spiced to claim her love | F |
| Packed was my barque with gums and gold | G |
| Rich fabrics sandalwood grown old | G |
| With odor gems and pearls of Oman | H |
| Than her white breasts less white and cold | G |
| And myrrh less fragrant than this woman | D |
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| III | A |
| - | |
| From Bassora I came We saw | I |
| Her eagle castle on a claw | I |
| Of soaring precipice o'erawe | J |
| The surge and thunder of the spray | K |
| Like some great opal far away | K |
| It shone with battlement and spire | L |
| Wherefrom with wild aroma day | K |
| Blew splintered lights of sapphirine fire | M |
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| IV | F |
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| Lamenting caverns dark that keep | N |
| Sonorous echoes of the deep | N |
| Led upward to her castle steep | N |
| Fair as the moon whose light is shed | O |
| In Ramadan was she who led | O |
| My love unto her island bowers | P |
| To find her lying young and dead | O |
| Among her maidens and her flowers | P |
Madison Julius Cawein
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