San Cristobal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF AGHAIJKLA MNNNNOP AEQ NBRS TUVNWNVNEXYZEEA2B2| A gypsy sits in a taverna | A |
| joking with a sailor | B |
| who has left | C |
| bridges and maidens | D |
| along islets connecting | E |
| many a storied sea | F |
| - | |
| Ducats tumble from a | A |
| cloth bag the way | G |
| the gypsy remembers | H |
| caravans and the | A |
| remembrance of gold | I |
| steeled against | J |
| warm flesh in | K |
| moonlight of his native | L |
| Umbria | A |
| - | |
| Lavender is the coat of dreams | M |
| along navy blue hemmings | N |
| the colour of the gypsy's | N |
| eyes the blood's | N |
| colour progeny whose | N |
| men of wealth | O |
| both are related to | P |
| - | |
| The gypsy stares at the taverna | A |
| wall and the ducats gleaming | E |
| to outside rain | Q |
| - | |
| Men joke at rail depots | N |
| where in a like fashion water | B |
| splashes mud into little | R |
| arches up a riverbank | S |
| - | |
| Neither has the shallows of | T |
| minnows at his command | U |
| Bunched up stubble in the wind | V |
| cannot fathom lies | N |
| or gender hope | W |
| it is lhe province | N |
| of the mind | V |
| the coinage of perhaps | N |
| a Spaniard on discovering | E |
| San Cristobal one's own | X |
| sieglo oro in fortune | Y |
| squandered in sunlight | Z |
| with only the sweating | E |
| Appolosa still straining | E |
| on this the last | A2 |
| taverna ride | B2 |
Paul Cameron Brown
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