Love In Spain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCB DDB EEB FFB GGB HHB IIB JJB KKB LLB MMB NNB OOP QQB RRB| You shall not dare to drink this cup | A |
| Yet fear this other I hold up | A |
| Sings Love in Spain | B |
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| One brimming deep with woman's breath | C |
| This other moon lit cup is Death | C |
| Drink one drink twain | B |
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| No sippers we of ladies' lips | D |
| Toyers of amorous finger tips | D |
| Are we in Spain | B |
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| Terrible like a bright sweet sword | E |
| And little tender is the Lord | E |
| Of Love in Spain | B |
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| His song a tiger throated thing | F |
| A crouch a cry a frightened string | F |
| Death the refrain | B |
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| Scarlet and lightning are its words | G |
| There is no room in it for birds | G |
| And flowers in Spain | B |
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| A flash and mouth is lost on mouth | H |
| And life on life so in the South | H |
| The cup we drain | B |
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| We do not dream and hesitate | I |
| About its brim we fear not Fate | I |
| That love in Spain | B |
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| And ah come hear the reason why | J |
| There are no girls beneath the sky | J |
| Like those of Spain | B |
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| All other women scarcely seem | K |
| More than pale women in a dream | K |
| By ours of Spain | B |
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| Ah who aright shall tell their praise | L |
| Their subtle soft imperious ways | L |
| Their high disdain | B |
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| Golden as bars of Spanish gold | M |
| Hot as the sun as the moon cold | M |
| The girls of Spain | B |
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| Their faces as magnolias white | N |
| Their hair the soul of summer night | N |
| Soft as soft rain | B |
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| And swift as the steel blade that flies | O |
| Into a coward's heart their eyes | O |
| Then soft again | P |
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| Under their little languid feet | Q |
| That carry such a world of sweet | Q |
| My heart lies slain | B |
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| Girls North and South and East and West | R |
| But fairer far than all the rest | R |
| The girls of Spain | B |
Richard Le Gallienne
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