Tartary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDE AFAFGGGF FHAHFFFH FIFIHHHI| If I were Lord of Tartary | A |
| Myself and me alone | B |
| My bed should be of ivory | A |
| Of beaten gold my throne | B |
| And in my court should peacocks flaunt | C |
| And in my forests tigers haunt | C |
| And in my pools great fishes slant | D |
| Their fins athwart the sun | E |
| - | |
| If I were Lord of Tartary | A |
| Trumpeters every day | F |
| To all my meals should summon me | A |
| And in my courtyards bray | F |
| And in the evening lamps should shine | G |
| Yellow as honey red as wine | G |
| While harp and flute and mandoline | G |
| Made music sweet and gay | F |
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| If I were Lord of Tartary | F |
| I'd wear a robe of beads | H |
| White and gold and green they'd be | A |
| And small and thick as seeds | H |
| And ere should wane the morning star | F |
| I'd don my robe and scimitar | F |
| And zebras seven should draw my car | F |
| Through Tartary's dark gleades | H |
| - | |
| Lord of the fruits of Tartary | F |
| Her rivers silver pale | I |
| Lord of the hills of Tartary | F |
| Glen thicket wood and dale | I |
| Her flashing stars her scented breeze | H |
| Her trembling lakes like foamless seas | H |
| Her bird delighting citron trees | H |
| In every purple vale | I |
Walter De La Mare
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vaiga: in my class today . the lesson was about tartary i love to poem . so i think that this was famoss so i love by vaiga grade 5
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