Laos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB AC DE FG HI DD JK LL MN MI| Dear girl your cheeks are soft and tender | A |
| And your breasts like little hills are slender | A |
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| Fall in love with me and from this instance | B |
| We will never live apart in distance | B |
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| My piragua we will board together | A |
| And the wind will set our sail untethered | C |
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| Should you wish to ride an elephant dear | D |
| I will be your loyal karnak there | E |
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| Should you turn into the moon one evening | F |
| I ll become a cloud so to be near you | G |
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| Should you be liana of the jungle | H |
| I will turn into a bird or a monkey | I |
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| On the mountain peak you climb my dear | D |
| Looking into the abyss with awe and fear | D |
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| Even if they put my feet in irons | J |
| I will climb that peak despite all tyrants | K |
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| Yet my skills are useless for tomorrow | L |
| I am destined for a bitter sorrow | L |
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| You don t love me so I soon start perish | M |
| Like a bull deprived of juicy daisies | N |
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| With no single kiss that I could cherish | M |
| On that cheek of yours so fresh and rosy | I |
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
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