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 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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