The Sufi In The City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCB A DDED A FFGF H IIJ H KLMLI | A |
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When late I watched the arrows of the sleet | B |
Against the windows of the Tavern beat | B |
I heard a Rose that murmured from her Pot | C |
'Why trudge thy fellows yonder in the Street | B |
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II | A |
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'Before the phantom of False Morning dies | D |
Choked in the bitter Net that binds the skies | D |
Their feet bemired with Yesterday set out | E |
For the dark alleys where To morrow lies | D |
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III | A |
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'Think you when all their petals they have bruised | F |
And all the fragrances of Life confused | F |
That Night with sweeter rest will comfort these | G |
Than us who still within the Garden mused | F |
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IV | H |
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'Think you the Gold they fight for all day long | I |
Is worth the frugal Peace their clamours wrong | I |
Their Titles and the Name they toil to build | J |
Will they outlast the echoes of our Song ' | - |
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V | H |
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O Sons of Omar what shall be the close | K |
Seek not to know for no man living knows | L |
But while within your hands the Wine is set | M |
Drink ye to Omar and the Dreaming Rose | L |
Sir Henry Newbolt
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