Kalmuck Bride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BDED FGHI JJ KILF| I HAVE saddled your white steed and I have burnished them | A |
| Your belt with crystal clasps your lance your scimitar | B |
| Your carbine silver chased now ere you mount and ride | C |
| Across the sky wide steppe a horseman to the war | B |
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| A promise make your bride that at the self same hour | B |
| Whether you gallop on or halt in some wide mart | D |
| You'll look up at the moon so round so full so bright | E |
| The almost moveless moon with longing in your heart | D |
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| And I beside the tent will gaze and gaze and gaze | F |
| Upon the self same moon that's like the looking glass | G |
| You brought me from the fair of whitened Kadajah | H |
| The present from your hand in which I saw my face | I |
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| Shine lance and scimitar shine belt and shine carbine | J |
| With magic of the moon I have endued your shine | J |
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| Charmed by that double gaze the moon that's won unto | K |
| The magic I contrive will mirror my wan face | I |
| And you will see above so far so still so sad | L |
| The daughter of the Khan who nightly seeks your gaze | F |
Padraic Colum
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