The Sâkiyeh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDEDEC| How long shall Man be Nature's fool Man cries | A |
| Be like those great gaunt oxen drilled and bound | B |
| Inexorably driven round and round | B |
| To turn the water wheel with bandaged eyes | A |
| And as they trudge beneath Egyptian skies | A |
| Watering the wrinkled desert's beggared ground | B |
| The hoarse S kiyeh's lamentable sound | B |
| Fills all the land as with a people's sighs | A |
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| Poor Brutes Who in unconsciousness sublime | C |
| Replenishing the ever empty jars | D |
| Endow the waste with palms and harvest gold | E |
| And men who move in rhythm with moving stars | D |
| Should shrink to give the borrowed lives they hold | E |
| Bound blindfold to the groaning wheel of Time | C |
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