Through The Metidja To Abd-el-kadr Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBBBBB BBBBBBBB BBBBBBBB C BBBBBBBB C BBBBBBBB| Abd el Kadr was an Arab Chief of Algiers who resisted the French in | A |
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| I | - |
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| As I ride as I ride | B |
| With a full heart for my guide | B |
| So its tide rocks my side | B |
| As I ride as I ride | B |
| That as I were double eyed | B |
| He in whom our Tribes confide | B |
| Is descried ways untried | B |
| As I ride as I ride | B |
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| II | - |
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| As I ride as I ride | B |
| To our Chief and his Allied | B |
| Who dares chide my heart's pride | B |
| As I ride as I ride | B |
| Or are witnesses denied | B |
| Through the desert waste and wide | B |
| Do I glide unespied | B |
| As I ride as I ride | B |
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| III | - |
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| As I ride as I ride | B |
| When an inner voice has cried | B |
| The sands slide nor abide | B |
| As I ride as I ride | B |
| O'er each visioned homicide | B |
| That came vaunting has he lied | B |
| To reside where he died | B |
| As I ride as I ride | B |
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| IV | C |
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| As I ride as I ride | B |
| Ne'er has spur my swift horse plied | B |
| Yet his hide streaked and pied | B |
| As I ride as I ride | B |
| Shows where sweat has sprung and dried | B |
| Zebra footed ostrich thighed | B |
| How has vied stride with stride | B |
| As I ride as I ride | B |
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| V | C |
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| As I ride as I ride | B |
| Could I loose what Fate has tied | B |
| Ere I pried she should hide | B |
| As I ride as I ride | B |
| All that's meant me satisfied | B |
| When the Prophet and the Bride | B |
| Stop veins I'd have subside | B |
| As I ride as I ride | B |
Robert Browning
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