Journey Of The Magi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFCGFHIJ KLMNHOPCQIARSTULC HCVNWXQYGZA2B2C2D2GE 2F2G2H2C QC2I2I2B2J2CK2L2F2M2 N2L2O2P2Q2NMR2L2| 'A cold coming we had of it | A |
| Just the worst time of the year | B |
| For a journey and such a journey | C |
| The ways deep and the weather sharp | D |
| The very dead of winter ' | E |
| And the camels galled sore footed | F |
| refractory | C |
| Lying down in the melting snow | G |
| There were times we regretted | F |
| The summer palaces on slopes the | H |
| terraces | I |
| And the silken girls bringing sherbet | J |
| - | |
| Then the camel men cursing and | K |
| grumbling | L |
| And running away and wanting their | M |
| liquor and women | N |
| And the night fires going out and the | H |
| lack of shelters | O |
| And the cities hostile and the towns | P |
| unfriendly | C |
| And the villages dirty and charging high | Q |
| prices | I |
| A hard time we had of it | A |
| At the end we preferred to travel all | R |
| night | S |
| Sleeping in snatches | T |
| With the voices singing in our ears | U |
| saying | L |
| That this was all folly | C |
| - | |
| Then at dawn we came down to a | H |
| temperate valley | C |
| Wet below the snow line smelling of | V |
| vegetation | N |
| With a running stream and a water mill | W |
| beating the darkness | X |
| And three trees on the low sky | Q |
| And an old white horse galloped in | Y |
| away in the meadow | G |
| Then we came to a tavern with | Z |
| vine leaves over the lintel | A2 |
| Six hands at an open door dicing for | B2 |
| pieces of silver | C2 |
| And feet kicking the empty wine skins | D2 |
| But there was no imformation and so | G |
| we continued | E2 |
| And arrived at evening not a moment | F2 |
| too soon | G2 |
| Finding the place it was you may say | H2 |
| satisfactory | C |
| - | |
| All this was a long time ago I | Q |
| remember | C2 |
| And I would do it again but set down | I2 |
| This set down | I2 |
| This were we led all that way for | B2 |
| Birth or Death There was a Birth | J2 |
| certainly | C |
| We had evidence and no doubt I had | K2 |
| seen birth and death | L2 |
| But had thought they were different | F2 |
| this Birth was | M2 |
| Hard and bitter agony for us like | N2 |
| Death our death | L2 |
| We returned to our places these | O2 |
| Kingdoms | P2 |
| But no longer at ease here in the old | Q2 |
| dispensation | N |
| With an alien people clutching their | M |
| gods | R2 |
| I should be glad of another death | L2 |
T. S. Eliot
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