Tales Of Arabia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFFG GGFH EFFF FFEI| YES friend I own these tales of Arabia | A |
| Smile not as smiled their flawless originals | B |
| Age old but yet untamed for ages | C |
| Pass and the magic is undiminished | D |
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| Thus friend the tales of the old Camaralzaman | E |
| Ayoub the Slave of Love or the Calendars | F |
| Blind eyed and ill starred royal scions | F |
| Charm us in age as they charmed in childhood | G |
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| Fair ones beyond all numerability | G |
| Beam from the palace beam on humanity | G |
| Bright eyed in truth yet soul less houris | F |
| Offering pleasure and only pleasure | H |
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| Thus they the venal Muses Arabian | E |
| Unlike indeed the nobler divinities | F |
| Greek Gods or old time honoured muses | F |
| Easily proffer unloved caresses | F |
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| Lost lost the man who mindeth the minstrelsy | F |
| Since still in sandy glittering pleasances | F |
| Cold stony fruits gem like but quite in | E |
| Edible flatter and wholly starve him | I |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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