The Pasha And The Dervish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B AAAAAA AAACCA DDEEFE EEGAAG HHAEEA AAIAAI JJEKKE| Un jour Ali passait | A |
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| XIII Nov | B |
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| Ali came riding by the highest head | A |
| Bent to the dust o'ercharged with dread | A |
| Whilst God be praised all cried | A |
| But through the throng one dervish pressed | A |
| Aged and bent who dared arrest | A |
| The pasha in his pride | A |
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| Ali Tepelini light of all light | A |
| Who hold'st the Divan's upper seat by right | A |
| Whose fame Fame's trump hath burst | A |
| Thou art the master of unnumbered hosts | C |
| Shade of the Sultan yet he only boasts | C |
| In thee a dog accurst | A |
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| An unseen tomb torch flickers on thy path | D |
| Whilst as from vial full thy spare naught wrath | D |
| Splashes this trembling race | E |
| These are thy grass as thou their trenchant scythes | E |
| Cleaving their neck as 'twere a willow withe | F |
| Their blood none can efface | E |
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| But ends thy tether for Janina makes | E |
| A grave for thee where every turret quakes | E |
| And thou shalt drop below | G |
| To where the spirits to a tree enchained | A |
| Will clutch thee there to be 'mid them retained | A |
| For all to come in woe | G |
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| Or if by happy chance thy soul might flee | H |
| Thy victims after thou shouldst surely see | H |
| And hear thy crimes relate | A |
| Streaked with the guileless gore drained from their veins | E |
| Greater in number than the reigns on reigns | E |
| Thou hopedst for thy state | A |
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| This so will be and neither fleet nor fort | A |
| Can stay or aid thee as the deathly port | A |
| Receives thy harried frame | I |
| Though like the cunning Hebrew knave of old | A |
| To cheat the angel black thou didst enfold | A |
| In altered guise thy name | I |
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| Ali deemed anchorite or saint a pawn | J |
| The crater of his blunderbuss did yawn | J |
| Sword dagger hung at ease | E |
| But he had let the holy man revile | K |
| Though clouds o'erswept his brow then with a smile | K |
| He tossed him his pelisse | E |
Victor-marie Hugo
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