The Mameluke Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCCDCE A FFFGGHGH A FFFFFFFF IIIFFJFJ| I | A |
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| She was a queen 'Midst mutes and slaves | B |
| A mameluke he loved her Waves | B |
| Dashed not more hopelessly the paves | B |
| Of her high marble palace stair | C |
| Than lashed his love his heart's despair | C |
| As souls in Hell dream Paradise | D |
| He suffered yet forgot it there | C |
| Beneath Rommaneh's houri eyes | E |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| With passion eating at his heart | F |
| He served her beauty but dared dart | F |
| No amorous glance nor word impart | F |
| Taifi leather's perfumed tan | G |
| Beneath her on a low divan | G |
| She lay 'mid cushions stuffed with down | H |
| A slave girl with an ostrich fan | G |
| Sat by her in a golden gown | H |
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| III | A |
| - | |
| She bade him sing Fair lutanist | F |
| She loved his voice With one white wrist | F |
| Hooped with a blaze of amethyst | F |
| She raised her ruby crusted lute | F |
| Gold welted stuff like some rich fruit | F |
| Her raiment diamond showered rolled | F |
| Folds pigeon purple whence one foot | F |
| Drooped in an anklet twist of gold | F |
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| IV | - |
| - | |
| He stood and sang with all the fire | I |
| That boiled within his blood's desire | I |
| That made him all her slave yet higher | I |
| And at the end his passion durst | F |
| Quench with one burning kiss its thirst | F |
| O eunuchs did her face show scorn | J |
| When through his heart your daggers burst | F |
| And dare ye say he died forlorn | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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