Tamara Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDED BFGF HIAI AJKJ BLAL LLLL BLDL BLBL AMBM AND ALOL| Where waves of the Terek are waltzing | A |
| In Dariel's wickedest pass | B |
| There rises from bleakest of storm crags | B |
| An ancient grey towering mass | B |
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| In this tower by mad winds assaulted | C |
| Sat ever Tamara the Queen | D |
| A heavenly angel of beauty | E |
| With a spirit of hell's own demesne | D |
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| Through the mist of the night her gold fires | B |
| Gleamed down through the valley below | F |
| A welcome they threw to the pilgrim | G |
| In their streaming and beckoning glow | F |
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| How clear rang the voice of Tamara | H |
| How amorous did it invite | I |
| The heart of the stranger enticing | A |
| Seducing with magic delight | I |
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| The warrior was snared by her singing | A |
| Nor noble nor herd could withstand | J |
| Then noiseless her portal was opened | K |
| By eunuchs of shadowy hand | J |
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| With pearls rare adorned and strange jewels | B |
| Reposed on a billowy nest | L |
| A prey to voluptuous longing | A |
| Tamara awaited her guest | L |
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| With passioned and thrilling embracement | L |
| With straining of breast unto breast | L |
| With sighing and trembling and transport | L |
| In lust's unrestrained giddy zest | L |
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| So revelled 'mid desolate ruins | B |
| Of Lovers past counting at least | L |
| In their bridal night's wild distraction | D |
| And in truth at their own death feast | L |
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| For when from the peaks of the mountains | B |
| The sun tore the night's veiling soft | L |
| There reigned anew only the silence | B |
| On turret and casement aloft | L |
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| And only the Terek bewailing | A |
| With fury broke in on the hush | M |
| As dashing her billows on billows | B |
| Her writhing floods onward did rush | M |
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| A youth's form her currents are bearing | A |
| Ah vainly they murmur and swell | N |
| A woman a pale and a fair one | D |
| Cries down from her tower 'Farewell ' | - |
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| Her voice has the sound of faint weeping | A |
| So amorous tender and sweet | L |
| As if she in love's holy rapture | O |
| Did promise of meeting repeat | L |
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
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