The Veil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BABACDCD A D A EFEGGHGH A H A IJIAKLKL A L A MNONPQPQ A Q| THE SISTER | A |
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| Why brother why upon me stare | B |
| Why do your brows so fiercely lower | A |
| Your eyes like funeral torches glare | B |
| Beneath their gloomy looks I cower | A |
| Why do I see your sashes rent | C |
| Why have you thrice your fingers laid | D |
| Upon the sheath What dire intent | C |
| Makes you half draw the glittering blade | D |
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| FIRST BROTHER | A |
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| Raised you today your veil and face displayed | D |
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| SISTER | A |
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| Home from the bath my path I took | E |
| Brothers Look not so terribly | F |
| And I was hidden from the look | E |
| Of every unbeliever's eye | G |
| But as the Mosque I hurried by | G |
| Close covered in my palanquin | H |
| Stifled beneath the mid day sky | G |
| I loosed my veil to breathe between | H |
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| SECOND BROTHER | A |
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| Did not a man then pass in Cafton green | H |
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| SISTER | A |
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| Ah yes perhaps it may be so | I |
| But he ne'er saw my face My brothers | J |
| Together you are whispering low | I |
| What whisper you to one another | A |
| You would not kill me On your soul | K |
| He saw me not My oath believe | L |
| Have mercy Your blind rage control | K |
| Your poor young sister O reprieve | L |
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| THIRD BROTHER | A |
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| Blood red I saw the sun sink down at eve | L |
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| SISTER | A |
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| Mercy O mercy Brothers cease | M |
| Your daggers stab me to the heart | N |
| Brothers I cling about your knees | O |
| O veil White veil The cause thou art | N |
| Brothers Your dying sister prop | P |
| Tear not my bleeding hand away | Q |
| Darkness come o'er me with me stop | P |
| The veil of death shuts out the day | Q |
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| FOURTH BROTHER | A |
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| Unlifted by your hands this veil will stay | Q |
Victor Marie Hugo
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