Ocean Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDE FGAC BCCH I JI K GB A L H M C N BHO HP FQH CR BS HT UH AC PV AWXC HYC C B| All that is eternal is circular | A |
| Aristotle | B |
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| Cueta and Tetuan are outposts within the Arab psyche | C |
| frail islets jutting their Islamic consciousness | D |
| into the infidel mind | E |
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| A mere eight miles separates the tip of North Africa | F |
| from Iberia's reclining form | G |
| An Arab dhow sits off the port of Tangier | A |
| where the unsuspecting can lose more than priapic curiosity | C |
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| Arabia from Ormuz to Sofala | B |
| an empire of sabulous plenitude | C |
| shiekdoms oil rich fiefs and | C |
| luxurious enervation | H |
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| Da Gama rounds the Bight of Africa needles the Saracen eye | I |
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| Tutankhamen rests dolefully within the dunes | J |
| away from bone merchants until draws nigh | I |
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| Ptolemy errs and extends Africa to the Poles | K |
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| The noblest failure in antiquity rests in Zama | G |
| while Jesus toiled for our betterment at Galilee | B |
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| Richard dies besieging Acre | A |
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| Carnage occurred at Lepanto with attendant demise of the Turk | L |
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| Marco Polo ignores the Levant for the riches of a Khan | H |
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| The memory of El Alamein burnt away any vestige of Tobruk | M |
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| The Casbah is my twain that confirms East West shall never meet | C |
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| The False Prophet is in abundance notwithstanding Western civilization's fierce resistance to his ideas | N |
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| Minarets prayer rugs face Mecca five times daily while | B |
| opium on a mother's breast induces premature death in | H |
| unwanted infant girls | O |
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| The purdah is an eerie monologue between the feminine | H |
| form and purloined courage | P |
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| Mysticism juxtaposes carnal delight in the halls of the | F |
| Saladein's concubines | Q |
| Harems the seraglios are the coveted date wine | H |
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| In Cape Bojador there lurks a primeval instinct | C |
| a nagging supposition all is not right with Araby | R |
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| The bath the cloying sweetness of duplicity | B |
| stirs amidst trenchant eyes | S |
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| Marmelukes are more than adventure book fiction | H |
| in the silent quarters | T |
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| The swirling dust the prohibition of alcoholic drink | U |
| are dervishes in the hadji's brain | H |
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| Everywhere the ragged people cluster | A |
| almsgiving becomes a prayer in the saline night | C |
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| Any but the Moslem faith caught in the pilgrimmage | P |
| to Mecca meet swift death | V |
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| The shopfronts with their bronzed clatter | A |
| decantered gold near haggling that becomes | W |
| the economics of plea bargaining wits | X |
| desire against pressing need | C |
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| Debarking from Algeciras facing the sublime North African | H |
| desert as her colours coil pitch forward amongst the hills | Y |
| squares this continent's personality against the Occident | C |
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| Europe found other continents soft butter to her trenchant blade | C |
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| Here she must consider herself matched with the heady dictates of survival | B |
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