The Moon Of Ramadân Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIHE JKJKFLFE MNMNODOE PQPQRDRE STLTGDGE UTUTGDGE TGTVPPPP WXWXYPZP VTVTTPTP AA2AA2B2PB2P

The sunset melts upon the NileA
The stony desert glowsB
Beneath heaven's universal smileA
One burning damask roseB
And like a Peri's pearly boatC
No longer than a spanD
Look faint on fiery sky afloatC
The Moon of Ramad nE
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Our boat drifts idly with the StreamF
Our boatmen ship the oarG
Vistas of endless temples gleamF
On either topaz shoreG
And swimming over groves of PalmH
A crescent weak and wanI
There steals into the perfect calmH
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All nature seems to bask in peaceJ
And hush her lowest sighK
Above the river's golden fleeceJ
The happy Halcyons flyK
And lost in some old lotos dreamF
The pensive PelicanL
Sees mirrored in the mazy streamF
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Black outlined on the golden airM
A turbaned SilhouetteN
The Mueddin invites to prayerM
From many a MinaretN
Our dusky boatmen hear the callO
And prostrate man on manD
They bow adoring one and allO
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Where Luxor's rose flushed columns shineP
Above the river's brimQ
The priests with incense once and wineP
Made sacrifice to HimQ
The highest god of Thebes and headR
Of all the heavenly clanD
But now the Moslem hails insteadR
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The gods have come the gods have goneS
Yet wedded to their wallsT
Winged with the serpent of the SunL
In mute processionalsT
They stride from door to massy doorG
Bound nations in their vanD
Though Amon's Sun has waned beforeG
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Yea even proud Egypt's proudest kingU
Who chastised rebel landsT
And brought his gods for offeringU
Mountains of severed handsT
Who singly like a god of WarG
Smote hosts that swerved and ranD
Lies low 'neath Allah's scimetarG
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And Isis Queen whose sacred disk'sT
Horned splendour crowned her browG
While fires of flashing ObelisksT
Flamed in the AfterglowV
And white robed priests who served her shrineP
Have turned MahommedanP
And worship Him who wears for signP
The Moon of Ramad nP
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The rosy lotos flower and leafW
Which wreathed each sacred lakeX
With Nature's loveliest bas reliefW
Has followed in their wakeX
Yea with the last true Pharaoh's deathY
The lotos leaves grown wanP
Have changed to lily white beneathZ
The Moon of Ramad nP
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The gods may come the gods may goV
And royal realms change handsT
But the most ancient Nile will flowV
And flood the desert sandsT
And nightly will he glass the stars'T
Unearthly caravanP
Nor care if it be Rome's red MarsT
Or Moon of Ramad nP
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The sunset fades upon the NileA
The desert's stony gloomA2
Receding blankly mile on mileA
Grows silent as a tombA2
All weary wanderers man and beastB2
Hie fasting to the KhanP
While shines above their nightly feastB2
The Moon of Ramad nP

Mathilde Blind



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