Self Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB BCDC EFGF HIJI KFLF| A Sufi debauchee of dreams | A |
| Spake this From Sodomite to Peri | B |
| Earth tablets us we live and are | B |
| Man's own long commentary | B |
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| Is one begat in Bassora | B |
| One lies in Damietta dying | C |
| The plausibilities of God | D |
| All possibles o'erlying | C |
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| But burns the lust within the flesh | E |
| Hell's but a homily to Heaven | F |
| Put then the individual first | G |
| And of thyself be shriven | F |
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| Neither in adamant nor brass | H |
| The scrutinizing eye records it | I |
| The arm is rooted in the heart | J |
| The heart that rules and lords it | I |
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| Be that it is and thou art all | K |
| And what thou art so thou hast written | F |
| Thee of the lutanists of Love | L |
| Or of the torture smitten | F |
Madison Julius Cawein
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