The Beautiful Beeshareen Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB DEDEFGGE DHDHIIIH BBBBJJJB KLKLMMML NOPOEEEO QRQRJJJS TUTUVVVU WXWXLLLX EYEYUUUY ZEZEVVVZ DUDUUUUU AUAUDDDU TWTWEEEW

Beautiful black eyed boyA
O lithe limbed BeeshareenB
Face that finds no maid coyA
Page for some peerless queenB
Some Orient queen of oldC
Sumptuous in woven goldC
Close clinging fold on foldC
Lightning with gems betweenB
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Bred in the desert whereD
Only to breathe and beE
Alive in living airD
Is finest ecstasyE
Where just to ride or roveF
With sun or stars aboveG
Intoxicates like loveG
When love shall come to theeE
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Thy lovely limbs are bareD
Only a rag in hasteH
Draped with a princely airD
Girdles they slender waistH
And gaudy beads and charmsI
Dangling from neck and armsI
Ward off dread spells and harmsI
Of Efreets of the wasteH
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Caressed of wind and sunB
Across the white walled townB
Fawnlike we saw thee runB
Light Love in Mocha brownB
Wild Cupid without wingsJ
Twanging thy viol stringsJ
With crocodiles and ringsJ
Bartered for half a crownB
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Spoilt darling of our barkK
Smiling with teeth as whiteL
As when across the darkK
There breaks a flash of lightL
And what a careless graceM
Showed in thy gait and paceM
Eyes starlike in a faceM
Sweet as a Nubian nightL
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Better than Felt or FezN
High on thy forehead setO
Countless in lock and tressP
Waved a wild mane of jetO
Kings well might envy theeE
What courts but rarely seeE
Curls of rich ebonyE
Coiled in a coronetO
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Lo in dim days long sinceQ
The strolling Almehs tellR
Thou shouldst have been a princeQ
Boy of the ebon fellR
If truth the poet singsJ
Thy tribe oh Beduin springsJ
From those lost tribes of KingsJ
Once Kings in IsraelS
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Ah me the camp fires gleamT
Out yonder where the sandsU
Fade like a lotos dreamT
In hollow twilight landsU
Our sail swells to the blastV
Our boat speeds far and fastV
Farewell And to the lastV
Smile waving friendly handsU
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From England's storm girt isleW
O'er seas where seagulls wailX
Rocked on the rippling NileW
We drift with drooping sailX
On waters hushed at nightL
Where stars of Egypt writeL
In hieroglyphs of lightL
Their undeciphered taleX
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Forlorn sits AssouanE
Where is her boy her prideY
Now in the lamplit KhanE
Now by the riversideY
Or where the SoudaneseU
Under mimosa treesU
Chaunt mournful melodiesU
We've sought him far and wideY
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Oh desert nurtured ChildZ
How dared they carry theeE
Far from thy native WildZ
Across the Western SeaE
Packed off poor boy at lastV
With many a plaster castV
Of plinth and pillar vastV
And waxen mummies piledZ
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Ah just like other wareD
For a lump sum or soU
Shipped to the World's great FairD
To big Chicago ShowU
With mythic beasts and thingsU
Beetles and bulls with wingsU
And imitation SphinxU
Ranged row on curious rowU
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Beautiful black eyed boyA
Ah me how strange it isU
That thou the desert's joyA
Whom heavenly winds would kissU
With Ching and Chang hwa wareD
Blue pots and bronzes rareD
Shouldst now be over thereD
Shown at PorkopolisU
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Gone like a lovely dreamT
Child of the starry smileW
Gone from the glowing streamT
Glassing its greenest isleW
We've sought but sought in vainE
Thou wilt not come againE
Never for bliss or painE
Home to thy orphaned NileW

Mathilde Blind



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