Constantinople - The Muezzin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG| Above the city at his feet | A |
| Above the dome above the sea | B |
| He rises unconfined and free | B |
| To break upon the noonday heat | A |
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| He turns around the parapet | C |
| Black robed against the marble tower | D |
| His singing gains or loses power | D |
| In pacing round the minaret | C |
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| A brother to the singing birds | E |
| He never knew restraining walls | F |
| But freely rises freely falls | F |
| The rhythm of the sacred words | E |
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| I would that it to me were given | G |
| To climb each day the muezzin's stair | H |
| And in the warm and silent air | H |
| To sing my heart out into Heaven | G |
Victoria Mary Sackville-west
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