The Banquet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBBDDC EFEFGHHGIJJKIK LMLMNMNOOKKNK PP| Wine ran rich yellow wine upon the marble floor | A |
| Recklessly spilled the Nubians ran to pour | A |
| A fresh libation and to scatter showers | B |
| Of red rose petals candles overturned | C |
| Smouldered among the ruins of the flowers | B |
| And overhead swung heavy shadowy bowers | B |
| Of blue and purple grapes | D |
| And strange fantastic shapes | D |
| Of varied birds where lanterns hung and dimly burned | C |
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| The melon and the orange turned to use | E |
| As golden balls with laughter lightly tossed | F |
| Lay burst and drained of their sweet juice | E |
| Uselessly ripened and for ever lost | F |
| All glowing as they lay upon the ground | G |
| As envious of their fellows | H |
| Who piled in luscious reds and yellows | H |
| Enriched the tables all around | G |
| The tables low | I |
| Sheltering the reclining grace | J |
| Here through the curling smoke a swarthy face | J |
| And jewelled turban bound about the head | K |
| And here the glow | I |
| Of red carnation pressed to lips as warmly red | K |
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| And as they lay in their luxurious ease | L |
| Playing with grapes and rose leaves slim | M |
| And willowy slave girls in the hope to please | L |
| Twisted and danced before them to the dim | M |
| Uncertain music in the shadows played | N |
| Some came with supple limb | M |
| With Mystery's aid | N |
| And snake like creep | O |
| Others with riotous leap | O |
| And made festivity to Bacchus wed | K |
| Others with stiff Egyptian tread | K |
| And straight black hair hanging in glossy braid | N |
| They danced unnoted and exhausted fled | K |
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| Still floated from beneath the acacia tree | P |
| The droning Eastern music's minor key | P |
Victoria Mary Sackville-west
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