Marriage Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH DJKJ LMNM OPQP RQSQ FEFE TUVW| Fair is my dove my loved one | A |
| None can with her compare | B |
| Yea comely as Jerusalem | C |
| Like unto Tirzah fair | B |
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| Shall she in tents unstable | D |
| A wanderer abide | E |
| While in my heart awaits her | F |
| A dwelling deep and wide | E |
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| The magic of her beauty | G |
| Has stolen my heart away | H |
| Not Egypt's wise enchanters | I |
| Held half such wondrous sway | H |
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| Even as the changing opal | D |
| In varying luster glows | J |
| Her face at every moment | K |
| New charms and sweetness shows | J |
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| White lilies and red roses | L |
| There blossom on one stem | M |
| Her lips of crimson berries | N |
| Tempt mine to gather them | M |
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| By dusky tresses shaded | O |
| Her brow gleams fair and pale | P |
| Like to the sun at twilight | Q |
| Behind a cloudy veil | P |
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| Her beauty shames the day star | R |
| And makes the darkness light | Q |
| Day in her radiant presence | S |
| Grows seven times more bright | Q |
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| This is a lonely lover | F |
| Come fair one to his side | E |
| That happy be together | F |
| The bridegroom and the bride | E |
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| The hour of love approaches | T |
| That shall make one of twain | U |
| Soon may be thus united | V |
| All Israel's hosts again | W |
Yehudah Halevi
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