The Beautiful Beeshareen Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB DEDEFGGE DHDHIIIH BBBBJJJB KLKLMMML NOPOEEEO QRQRJJJS TUTUVVVU WXWXLLLX EYEYUUUY ZEZEVVVZ DUDUUUUU AUAUDDDU TWTWEEEWBeautiful black eyed boy | A |
O lithe limbed Beeshareen | B |
Face that finds no maid coy | A |
Page for some peerless queen | B |
Some Orient queen of old | C |
Sumptuous in woven gold | C |
Close clinging fold on fold | C |
Lightning with gems between | B |
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Bred in the desert where | D |
Only to breathe and be | E |
Alive in living air | D |
Is finest ecstasy | E |
Where just to ride or rove | F |
With sun or stars above | G |
Intoxicates like love | G |
When love shall come to thee | E |
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Thy lovely limbs are bare | D |
Only a rag in haste | H |
Draped with a princely air | D |
Girdles they slender waist | H |
And gaudy beads and charms | I |
Dangling from neck and arms | I |
Ward off dread spells and harms | I |
Of Efreets of the waste | H |
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Caressed of wind and sun | B |
Across the white walled town | B |
Fawnlike we saw thee run | B |
Light Love in Mocha brown | B |
Wild Cupid without wings | J |
Twanging thy viol strings | J |
With crocodiles and rings | J |
Bartered for half a crown | B |
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Spoilt darling of our bark | K |
Smiling with teeth as white | L |
As when across the dark | K |
There breaks a flash of light | L |
And what a careless grace | M |
Showed in thy gait and pace | M |
Eyes starlike in a face | M |
Sweet as a Nubian night | L |
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Better than Felt or Fez | N |
High on thy forehead set | O |
Countless in lock and tress | P |
Waved a wild mane of jet | O |
Kings well might envy thee | E |
What courts but rarely see | E |
Curls of rich ebony | E |
Coiled in a coronet | O |
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Lo in dim days long since | Q |
The strolling Almehs tell | R |
Thou shouldst have been a prince | Q |
Boy of the ebon fell | R |
If truth the poet sings | J |
Thy tribe oh Beduin springs | J |
From those lost tribes of Kings | J |
Once Kings in Israel | S |
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Ah me the camp fires gleam | T |
Out yonder where the sands | U |
Fade like a lotos dream | T |
In hollow twilight lands | U |
Our sail swells to the blast | V |
Our boat speeds far and fast | V |
Farewell And to the last | V |
Smile waving friendly hands | U |
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From England's storm girt isle | W |
O'er seas where seagulls wail | X |
Rocked on the rippling Nile | W |
We drift with drooping sail | X |
On waters hushed at night | L |
Where stars of Egypt write | L |
In hieroglyphs of light | L |
Their undeciphered tale | X |
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Forlorn sits Assouan | E |
Where is her boy her pride | Y |
Now in the lamplit Khan | E |
Now by the riverside | Y |
Or where the Soudanese | U |
Under mimosa trees | U |
Chaunt mournful melodies | U |
We've sought him far and wide | Y |
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Oh desert nurtured Child | Z |
How dared they carry thee | E |
Far from thy native Wild | Z |
Across the Western Sea | E |
Packed off poor boy at last | V |
With many a plaster cast | V |
Of plinth and pillar vast | V |
And waxen mummies piled | Z |
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Ah just like other ware | D |
For a lump sum or so | U |
Shipped to the World's great Fair | D |
To big Chicago Show | U |
With mythic beasts and things | U |
Beetles and bulls with wings | U |
And imitation Sphinx | U |
Ranged row on curious row | U |
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Beautiful black eyed boy | A |
Ah me how strange it is | U |
That thou the desert's joy | A |
Whom heavenly winds would kiss | U |
With Ching and Chang hwa ware | D |
Blue pots and bronzes rare | D |
Shouldst now be over there | D |
Shown at Porkopolis | U |
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Gone like a lovely dream | T |
Child of the starry smile | W |
Gone from the glowing stream | T |
Glassing its greenest isle | W |
We've sought but sought in vain | E |
Thou wilt not come again | E |
Never for bliss or pain | E |
Home to thy orphaned Nile | W |
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