The Tiger-lily Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE AFAF GHGH AGAG| A sultan proud and tawny | A |
| At elegant ease he stands | B |
| With his bare throat brown and scrawny | A |
| And his indolent leaf like hands | B |
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| And the eunuch tulips that listen | C |
| In their gaudy turbans so | D |
| With their scimetar leaves that glisten | C |
| Are guards of his seraglio | E |
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| Where sultana roses musky | A |
| Voluptuous in houri charms | F |
| With their bold breasts deep and dusky | A |
| Impatiently wait his arms | F |
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| Tall beautiful sad and slender | G |
| His Greek girl dancing slaves | H |
| For the white limbed lilies tender | G |
| His royal hand he waves | H |
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| While he watches them softly smiling | A |
| His favorite rose that hour | G |
| With a butterfly gallant is wiling | A |
| In her attar scented bower | G |
Madison Julius Cawein
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