A Caravan From China Comes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABACA DADAD EBFBE GHGHG AAAAAAfter Hafiz | A |
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A caravan from China comes | A |
For miles it sweetens all the air | B |
With fragrant silks and dreaming gums | A |
Attar and myrrh | C |
A caravan from China comes | A |
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O merchant tell me what you bring | D |
With music sweet of camel bells | A |
How long have you been travelling | D |
With these sweet smells | A |
O merchant tell me what you bring | D |
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A lovely lady is my freight | E |
A lock escaped of her long hair | B |
That is this perfume delicate | F |
That fills the air | B |
A lovely lady is my freight | E |
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Her face is from another land | G |
I think she is no mortal maid | H |
Her beauty like some ghostly hand | G |
Makes me afraid | H |
Her face is from another land | G |
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The little moon my cargo is | A |
About her neck the Pleiades | A |
Clasp hands and sing Hafiz 't is this | A |
Perfumes the breeze | A |
The little moon my cargo is | A |
Richard Le Gallienne
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