The Queen's Rival Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ II KK LL JJ DD AA JJ II II MM AA DD NN HH II II II| QUEEN GULNAAR sat on her ivory bed | A |
| Around her countless treasures were spread | A |
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| Her chamber walls were richly inlaid | B |
| With agate porphory onyx and jade | B |
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| The tissues that veiled her delicate breast | C |
| Glowed with the hues of a lapwing's crest | C |
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| But still she gazed in her mirror and sighed | D |
| O King my heart is unsatisfied | D |
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| King Feroz bent from his ebony seat | E |
| Is thy least desire unfulfilled O Sweet | E |
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| Let thy mouth speak and my life be spent | F |
| To clear the sky of thy discontent | F |
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| I tire of my beauty I tire of this | G |
| Empty splendour and shadowless bliss | G |
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| With none to envy and none gainsay | H |
| No savour or salt hath my dream or day | H |
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| Queen Gulnaar sighed like a murmuring rose | I |
| Give me a rival O King Feroz | I |
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| King Feroz spoke to his Chief Vizier | J |
| Lo ere to morrow's dawn be here | J |
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| Send forth my messengers over the sea | I |
| To seek seven beautiful brides for me | I |
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| Radiant of feature and regal of mien | K |
| Seven handmaids meet for the Persian Queen | K |
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| Seven new moon tides at the Vesper call | L |
| King Feroz led to Queen Gulnaar's hall | L |
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| A young queen eyed like the morning star | J |
| I bring thee a rival O Queen Gulnaar | J |
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| But still she gazed in her mirror and sighed | D |
| O King my heart is unsatisfied | D |
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| Seven queens shone round her ivory bed | A |
| Like seven soft gems on a silken thread | A |
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| Like seven fair lamps in a royal tower | J |
| Like seven bright petals of Beauty's flower | J |
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| Queen Gulnaar sighed like a murmuring rose | I |
| Where is my rival O King Feroz | I |
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| III | - |
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| When spring winds wakened the mountain floods | I |
| And kindled the flame of the tulip buds | I |
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| When bees grew loud and the days grew long | M |
| And the peach groves thrilled to the oriole's song | M |
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| Queen Gulnaar sat on her ivory bed | A |
| Decking with jewels her exquisite head | A |
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| And still she gazed in her mirror and sighed | D |
| O King my heart is unsatisfied | D |
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| Queen Gulnsar's daughter two spring times old | N |
| In blue robes bordered with tassels of gold | N |
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| Ran to her knee like a wildwood fay | H |
| And plucked from her hand the mirror away | H |
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| Quickly she set on her own light curls | I |
| Her mother's fillet with fringes of pearls | I |
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| Quickly she turned with a child's caprice | I |
| And pressed on the mirror a swift glad kiss | I |
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| Queen Gulnaar laughed like a tremulous rose | I |
| Here is my rival O King Feroz | I |
Sarojini Naidu
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