Constantinople - Retour En Songe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB DEFFE GHIIIJ KLMMML NOPPPQ RSTTTS| After a dream dim voyage | A |
| We came with sails all set | B |
| Towards the city of the sea | C |
| And it was wonderful to me | C |
| To find her reigning yet | B |
| - | |
| Oh beauty that my eyes and heart | D |
| Had feasted on before | E |
| The evening mosques were brushed with gold | F |
| The water lapped a lazy fold | F |
| Upon that lovely shore | E |
| - | |
| The gardens of her terraced hills | G |
| Rose up above the port | H |
| And little houses half concealed | I |
| The presence of a light revealed | I |
| And here my journey's end was sealed | I |
| And I reached the home I sought | J |
| - | |
| Those windows I had opened wide | K |
| To welcome in the sun | L |
| Those stairs that only happy feet | M |
| Had measured with their running beat | M |
| That well remembered winding street | M |
| Twelve months that were as one | L |
| - | |
| Should others with their sordid cares | N |
| And troubles enter here | O |
| Love hung about the rooms like smoke | P |
| And peace descended as a cloak | P |
| Should I allow the vulgar folk | P |
| To desecrate that year | Q |
| - | |
| I laid the fuse with steady hand | R |
| We sailed into the night | S |
| From deck I watched the flames arise | T |
| Remorseless as my tearless eyes | T |
| That with the waves and reddened skies | T |
| Flung back the angry light | S |
Victoria Mary Sackville-west
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