The Moon Of Ramadân Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIHE JKJKFLFE MNMNODOE PQPQRDRE STLTGDGE UTUTGDGE TGTVPPPP WXWXYPZP VTVTTPTP AA2AA2B2PB2PThe sunset melts upon the Nile | A |
The stony desert glows | B |
Beneath heaven's universal smile | A |
One burning damask rose | B |
And like a Peri's pearly boat | C |
No longer than a span | D |
Look faint on fiery sky afloat | C |
The Moon of Ramad n | E |
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Our boat drifts idly with the Stream | F |
Our boatmen ship the oar | G |
Vistas of endless temples gleam | F |
On either topaz shore | G |
And swimming over groves of Palm | H |
A crescent weak and wan | I |
There steals into the perfect calm | H |
The Moon of Ramad n | E |
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All nature seems to bask in peace | J |
And hush her lowest sigh | K |
Above the river's golden fleece | J |
The happy Halcyons fly | K |
And lost in some old lotos dream | F |
The pensive Pelican | L |
Sees mirrored in the mazy stream | F |
The Moon of Ramad n | E |
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Black outlined on the golden air | M |
A turbaned Silhouette | N |
The Mueddin invites to prayer | M |
From many a Minaret | N |
Our dusky boatmen hear the call | O |
And prostrate man on man | D |
They bow adoring one and all | O |
The Moon of Ramad n | E |
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Where Luxor's rose flushed columns shine | P |
Above the river's brim | Q |
The priests with incense once and wine | P |
Made sacrifice to Him | Q |
The highest god of Thebes and head | R |
Of all the heavenly clan | D |
But now the Moslem hails instead | R |
The Moon of Ramad n | E |
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The gods have come the gods have gone | S |
Yet wedded to their walls | T |
Winged with the serpent of the Sun | L |
In mute processionals | T |
They stride from door to massy door | G |
Bound nations in their van | D |
Though Amon's Sun has waned before | G |
The Moon of Ramad n | E |
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Yea even proud Egypt's proudest king | U |
Who chastised rebel lands | T |
And brought his gods for offering | U |
Mountains of severed hands | T |
Who singly like a god of War | G |
Smote hosts that swerved and ran | D |
Lies low 'neath Allah's scimetar | G |
The Moon of Ramad n | E |
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And Isis Queen whose sacred disk's | T |
Horned splendour crowned her brow | G |
While fires of flashing Obelisks | T |
Flamed in the Afterglow | V |
And white robed priests who served her shrine | P |
Have turned Mahommedan | P |
And worship Him who wears for sign | P |
The Moon of Ramad n | P |
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The rosy lotos flower and leaf | W |
Which wreathed each sacred lake | X |
With Nature's loveliest bas relief | W |
Has followed in their wake | X |
Yea with the last true Pharaoh's death | Y |
The lotos leaves grown wan | P |
Have changed to lily white beneath | Z |
The Moon of Ramad n | P |
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The gods may come the gods may go | V |
And royal realms change hands | T |
But the most ancient Nile will flow | V |
And flood the desert sands | T |
And nightly will he glass the stars' | T |
Unearthly caravan | P |
Nor care if it be Rome's red Mars | T |
Or Moon of Ramad n | P |
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The sunset fades upon the Nile | A |
The desert's stony gloom | A2 |
Receding blankly mile on mile | A |
Grows silent as a tomb | A2 |
All weary wanderers man and beast | B2 |
Hie fasting to the Khan | P |
While shines above their nightly feast | B2 |
The Moon of Ramad n | P |
Mathilde Blind
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