The Slave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CD EE FF GG HH II JJ KK LM NN| He waited till within her tower | A |
| Her taper signalled him the hour | A |
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| He was a prince both fair and brave | B |
| What hope that he would love her slave | B |
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| He of the Persian dynasty | C |
| And she a Queen of Araby | D |
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| No Peri singing to a star | E |
| Upon the sea were lovelier | E |
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| I helped her dropp the silken rope | F |
| He clomb aflame with love and hope | F |
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| I drew the dagger from my gown | G |
| And cut the ladder leaning down | G |
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| Oh wild his face and wild the fall | H |
| Her cry was wilder than them all | H |
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| I heard her cry I heard him moan | I |
| And stood as merciless as stone | I |
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| The eunuchs came fierce scimitars | J |
| Stirred in the torch lit corridors | J |
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| She spoke like one who speaks in sleep | K |
| And bade me strike or she would leap | K |
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| I bade her leap the time was short | L |
| And kept the dagger for my heart | M |
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| She leapt I put their blades aside | N |
| And smiling in their faces died | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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