Nomads Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC AAA AAA CCCC| From the shores of the Atlantic to the gardens of Japan | A |
| From the darkness of the Neva to the courts of Ispahan | A |
| There is nothing that can hold us hold our wandering caravan | A |
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| Leisurely is our encamping nowhere pause in hasty flight | B |
| Long enough to learn the secret and the value and the might | B |
| Whether of the northern mountains or the southern lands of light | B |
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| And the riches of the regions will be ours from land to land | C |
| Falling as a wiling booty under our marauding hand | C |
| Rugs from Persia gods from China emeralds from Samarcand | C |
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| And the old forgotten empires which have faded turn by turn | A |
| From the shades emerging slowly to their ancient sway return | A |
| And to their imperial manhood rise the ashes from the urn | A |
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| We have known Bzyantium's glory when the eagled flag was flown | A |
| When the ruins were not ruins eagled visions have I known | A |
| Of a spectral Roman emperor seated on a spectral throne | A |
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| We have tasted space and freedom frontiers falling as we went | C |
| Now with narrow bonds and limits never could we be content | C |
| For we have abolished boundaries straitened borders have we rent | C |
| And a house no more confines us than the roving nomad's tent | C |
Victoria Mary Sackville-west
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