On Some Rose Leaves Brought From The Vale Of Cashmere Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE CCFF GGHH IIJJ KLMM| Faded and pale their beauty vanished their early bloom | A |
| Their folded leaves emit alone a sweet though faint perfume | A |
| But oh than brightest bud or flower to me are they more dear | B |
| They come from that rose haunted land the bright Vale of Cashmere | B |
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| Cashmere a spell is in that name what dreams its sound awakes | C |
| Of roses sweet as Eden's flowers of minarets and lakes | C |
| Of scenes as vaguely strangely bright as those of fairy land | D |
| Springing to life and loveliness 'neath some enchanter's wand | E |
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| Cashmere poetic in its name its clear and brilliant skies | C |
| That seem to clothe earth flower and wave in their own lovely dyes | C |
| Poetic in its legend lore and spell more dear than all | F |
| Enshrined in poet's inmost heart the home of Nourmahal | F |
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| Yes there oft fell her fairy feet there shone the glances bright | G |
| That won for her the glorious name of harem's queen and light | G |
| There as she wandered 'mid its bowers her royal love beside | H |
| She taught him to forget all else save her his beauteous bride | H |
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| Cashmere what would this heart not give to see thy favored earth | I |
| So rich in nature's peerless gifts in beauty's dazzling worth | I |
| Rich in a name that in mine ear from childhood's hour hath rung | J |
| The land of which impassioned Moore with such sweet power hath sung | J |
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| Yet were I there oh well I know the time would surely come | K |
| When my yearning heart would turn again to my far Canadian home | L |
| Longing to look once more upon its wintry wastes of snow | M |
| And the friends whose hearts throb like mine own with friendship's changeless glow | M |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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