Antara Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFFBFGF HDBDHFBIBFBIBFBCDDFI IDIBDBJBDF KCHBHBBBFDLDHDHCJFIC CDDM DDDDBD DDDDBDBNDFFHDFDDFBDD BDDDIDDB FFFNFDBDDIIF BDCDBDBD DDDCDFDIFDBF| How many singers before me Are there yet songs unsung | A |
| Dost thou my sad soul remember where was her dwellingplace | B |
| Tents in Jiw the fair w di speak ye to me of her | C |
| Fair house of 'Abla my true love blessing and joy to thee | D |
| Doubting I paused in the pastures seeking her camel tracks | B |
| high on my swift trotting n ga tall as a citadel | E |
| Weaving a dream of the past days days when she dwelt in them | F |
| 'Abla my true love in H zzen Samm n Mutath llemi | F |
| There on the sand lay the hearth stones black in their emptiness | B |
| desolate more for the loved ones fled with Om H ythami | F |
| Fled to the land of the lions roarers importunate | G |
| Daily my quest of thee darkens daughter of M khrami | F |
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| Truly at first sight I loved her I who had slain her kin | H |
| ay by the life ofthy father not in inconstancy | D |
| Love thou hast taken possession Deem it not otherwise | B |
| Thou in my heart art the first one first in nobility | D |
| How shall I win to her people Far in An yzateyn | H |
| feed they their flocks in the Spring time we in the Gh lem | F |
| Yet it was thou my beloved willed we should sunder thus | B |
| bridled thyself the swift striders black night encompassing | I |
| Fear in my heart lay a captive seeing their camel herds | B |
| herded as waiting a burden close to the tents of them | F |
| Browsing on berries of kh mkhim forty two milch camels | B |
| black as the underwing feathers set in the raven's wing | I |
| Then was it 'Abla enslaved thee showing her tenderness | B |
| white teeth with lips for the kissing sweet was the taste of them | F |
| Sweet as the vials of odours sold by the musk sellers | B |
| fragrant the white teeth she showed thee fragrant the mouth of her | C |
| So is a garden new planted fresh in its greenery | D |
| watered by soft falling raindrops treadless untenanted | D |
| Lo on it rain clouds have lighted soft showers no hail in them | F |
| leaving each furrow a lakelet bright as a silverling | I |
| Pattering plashing they fell there rains at the sunsetting | I |
| wide spreading runlets of water streams of fertility | D |
| Mixed with the humming of bees' wings droning the day light long | I |
| never a pause in their chaunting gay drinking choruses | B |
| Blithe iteration of bees' wings wings struck in harmony | D |
| sharply as steel on the flint stone light handed smithy strokes | B |
| Sweet thou shalt rest till the morning all the night lightly there | J |
| while I my red horse bestriding ride with the forayers | B |
| Resting place more than the saddle none have I none than he | D |
| war horse of might in the rib bones deep is the girth of him | F |
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| Say shall a swift Shadan eh bear me to her I love | K |
| one under ban for the drinker weaned of the foal of her | C |
| One with the tail carried archwise long though the march hath been | H |
| one with the firm foot atrample threading the labyrinths | B |
| Lo how she spurneth the sand dunes like to the ear less one | H |
| him with the feet set together round him young ostriches | B |
| Troop like the cohorts of Y men herded by 'Ajemis | B |
| she camel cohorts of Y men herded by stammerers | B |
| Watching a beacon they follow led by the crown of him | F |
| carried aloft as a howdah howdah where damsels sit | D |
| Him the small headed returning fur furnished Ethiop | L |
| black slave to Thu el Ash ra there lie his eggs in it | D |
| Lo how my n ga hath drunken deeply in D hradeyn | H |
| how hath she shrunk back in D ylam pools of the enemy | D |
| Shrunk from its perilous cisterns scared by the hunting one | H |
| great headed shrieker of evening clutched to the flank of her | C |
| Still to her off side she shrinketh deemeth the led cat there | J |
| Clawing the more that she turneth thus is her fear of them | F |
| Lo she hath knelt in Rid a pleased there and murmuring | I |
| soft as the sweet fluting rushes crushed by the weight of her | C |
| Thickly as pitch from the boiling oozeth the sweat of her | C |
| pitch from the cauldron new lighted fire at the sides of it | D |
| Oozeth in drops from the ear roots Wrathful and bold is she | D |
| proud in her gait as a stallion hearing the battle cry | M |
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| Though thou thy fair face concealest still in thy veil from me | D |
| yet am I he that hath captured horse riders how many | D |
| Give me the praise of my fair deeds Lady thou knowest it | D |
| kindly am I and forbearing save when wrong presseth me | D |
| Only when evil assaileth deal I with bitterness | B |
| then am I cruel in vengeance bitter as colocynth | D |
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| Sometime in wine was my solace Good wine I drank of it | D |
| suaging the heat ofthe evening paying in white money | D |
| Quaffing in goblets of saffron pale streaked with ivory | D |
| hard at my hand their companion the flask to the left of me | D |
| Truly thus bibbing I squandered half my inheritance | B |
| yet was my honour a wideword No man had wounded it | D |
| Since that when sober my dew fall rained no less generous | B |
| thou too who knowest my nature thou too be bountiful | N |
| How many loved of the fair ones have I not buffeted | D |
| youths overthrown Ha the blood streams shrill from the veins of them | F |
| Swift stroke two handed I smote him thrust through the ribs of him | F |
| forth flowed the stream of his life blood red as anemone | H |
| Ask of the horsemen of M lek O thou his progeny | D |
| all they have seen of my high deeds Then shalt thou learn of them | F |
| How that I singly among them clad in war's panoply | D |
| stout on my war horse theswift one charged at their chivalry | D |
| Lo how he rusheth the fierce one singly in midst of them | F |
| waiting anon for the archers closing in front of us | B |
| They that were nearest in battle they be my proof to thee | D |
| how they have quailed at my war cry felt my urbanity | D |
| Many and proud are their heroes fear striking warriors | B |
| men who nor flee nor surrender yielding not easily | D |
| Yet hath my right arm o'erborne them thrust them aside from me | D |
| laid in their proud backs the long spear slender the shaft of it | D |
| See how it splitteth asunder mail coat and armouring | I |
| not the most valiant arefuge hath from the point of it | D |
| Slain on the ground have I left him prey to the lion's brood | D |
| feast of the wrists and the fingers Ha for the sacrifice | B |
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| Heavy his mail coat its sutures lo I divided them | F |
| piercing the joints of the champion brave was the badge of him | F |
| Quick handed he with the arrows cast in the winter time | F |
| raider of wine sellers' sign boards blamed as a prodigal | N |
| He when he saw me down riding making my point at him | F |
| showed me his white teeth in terror nay but not smilingly | D |
| All the day long did we joust it Then were his finger tips | B |
| stained as though dipped in the thlem dyed with the dragon's blood | D |
| Till with a spear thrust I pierced him once and again with it | D |
| last with a blade of the Indies fine steel its tempering | I |
| Smote him the hero of stature tall as a tamarisk | I |
| kinglike in sandals of dun hide noblest of all of them | F |
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| Oh thou my lamb the forbidden prize of competitors | B |
| why did they bid me not love thee why art thou veiled from me | D |
| Sent I my hand maiden spy like Go thou I said to her | C |
| bring me the news of my true love news in veracity | D |
| Go And she went and returning These in unguardedness | B |
| sit and thy fair lambamong them waiting thy archery | D |
| Then was it turned she towards me fawn necked in gentleness | B |
| noble in bearing gazelle like milk white the lip of it | D |
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| Woe for the baseness of 'Amru lord of ingratitude | D |
| Verily thanklessness turneth souls from humanity | D |
| Close have I kept to the war words thy father once spoke to me | D |
| how I should deal in the death play when lips part and teeth glitter | C |
| When in the thick of the combat heroes unflinchingly | D |
| cry in men's ears their defiance danger forgot by them | F |
| Close have I kept them and stood forth their shield from the enemy | D |
| calling onall with my war cries circling and challenging | I |
| There where the horsemen rode strongest I rode out in front of them | F |
| hurled forth my war shout and charged them no man thought blame of me | D |
| Antar they cried and their lances well cords in slenderness | B |
| pressed to the breast of my war horse still as I pressed on them | F |
| Doggedly strove w | - |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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