The Favorite Sultana. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDED FAGA HIJK LMNM LOPO FQRQ SQTQ UVWV XYFY FQYQ QZLZ A2YQY YYB2Y| N'ai je pas pour toi belle juive | A |
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| XII Oct | B |
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| To please you Jewess jewel | C |
| I have thinned my harem out | D |
| Must every flirting of your fan | E |
| Presage a dying shout | D |
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| Grace for the damsels tender | F |
| Who have fear to hear your laugh | A |
| For seldom gladness gilds your lips | G |
| But blood you mean to quaff | A |
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| In jealousy so zealous | H |
| Never was there woman worse | I |
| You'd have no roses but those grown | J |
| Above some buried corse | K |
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| Am I not pinioned firmly | L |
| Why be angered if the door | M |
| Repulses fifty suing maids | N |
| Who vainly there implore | M |
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| Let them live on to envy | L |
| My own empress of the world | O |
| To whom all Stamboul like a dog | P |
| Lies at the slippers curled | O |
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| To you my heroes lower | F |
| Those scarred ensigns none have cowed | Q |
| To you their turbans are depressed | R |
| That elsewhere march so proud | Q |
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| To you Bassora offers | S |
| Her respect and Trebizonde | Q |
| Her carpets richly wrought and spice | T |
| And gems of which you're fond | Q |
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| To you the Cyprus temples | U |
| Dare not bar or close the doors | V |
| For you the mighty Danube sends | W |
| The choicest of its stores | V |
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| Fear you the Grecian maidens | X |
| Pallid lilies of the isles | Y |
| Or the scorching eyed sand rover | F |
| From Baalbec's massy piles | Y |
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| Compared with yours oh daughter | F |
| Of King Solomon the grand | Q |
| What are round ebon bosoms | Y |
| High brows from Hellas' strand | Q |
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| You're neither blanched nor blackened | Q |
| For your tint of olive's clear | Z |
| Yours are lips of ripest cherry | L |
| You are straight as Arab spear | Z |
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| Hence launch no longer lightning | A2 |
| On these paltry slaves of ours | Y |
| Why should your flow of tears be matched | Q |
| By their mean life blood showers | Y |
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| Think only of our banquets | Y |
| Brought and served by charming girls | Y |
| For beauties sultans must adorn | B2 |
| As dagger hilts the pearls | Y |
Victor-marie Hugo
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