How Shirwi Ascended The Throne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFCGF HIJKCLMNCOPCQRCCS T UCUGBTBBAV QC HGCUTBWCULCCCXCUCCBA CBCUAYUCCCCYUCUVUZDC QTTBUBCC BA2CCB2SCCUC2UBCCAAC CUBPUU SVAVCCBV CUUC SLCUCUV CHCU CUVCC CHBD2C SCCW BUUE2BUACCCACUUCVCCU BUTWCBVFrom the Shahnameh | A |
Now when Shirwi sat on the goodly throne | B |
And donned the royal crown so much desired | C |
The leaders of the Iranians each drew near | D |
To proffer him the homage due to kings | E |
Exclaiming 'Worshipful and honoured Sh h | F |
Know God gave thee the crown and now thou sittest | C |
Securely on the throne of ivory | G |
And may thy sons and scions have the world ' | F |
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Kub d replied 'Be ever conquering | H |
And happy Never will we practice ill | I |
How good is justice with benevolence | J |
The world will we keep peaceful and cut off | K |
The works of Ahriman by every right | C |
Ancestral precedent that greateneth | L |
The Glory of our Faith I will dispatch | M |
A message to my sire and tell him all | N |
He is in evil odour in the world | C |
Through his ill deeds let him excuse his faults | O |
To God and turn to custom and the way | P |
If he shall heed me he will not resent | C |
My conduct Then will I devote myself | Q |
To state affairs and strive to compass justice | R |
Both publicly and privily do good | C |
Where good is due and break no poor man's heart | C |
I need two honest men of goodly speech | S |
Whose memories are charged with ancient lore ' | - |
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He asked the assembly 'Whom shall I employ | T |
Who is most shrewd and honest in Iran ' | - |
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The warriors suggested by their looks | U |
Two men of lore if they should give consent | C |
Kub d perceived whom the Ir nians | U |
Agreed to choose one of them was Asht d | G |
The other was Kharr d son of Barzin | B |
The old two sages eloquent and heedful | T |
Kub d addressed them thus 'O ye wise men | B |
Ye chiefs experienced and veteran | B |
Deem not the conduct of the world too toilsome | A |
Because the Great by travail compass treasure | V |
It is for you now to approach the Sh h | - |
Perchance through you he may conform himself | Q |
Appeal to him by instance new or old | C |
As there is need ' | - |
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With tears unwilling | H |
Those sages made them ready When Kharr d | G |
Son of Barzin and when Asht d who had | C |
Gashasp for sire had mounted on their steeds | U |
As bidden Kub d said 'Now with right good will | T |
'Tis yours to take the road to Taisaf n | B |
To carry to my glorious sire a message | W |
And bear it all in mind from first to last | C |
Say ''Twas no fault of ours nor did the Ir nians | U |
Cause this but having left the way of Faith | L |
Thou hast thyself incurred God's chastisement | C |
for first no son legitimate will shed | C |
His sire's blood though impure or give assent | C |
Thereto and fill the hearts of upright folk | X |
With pain Again thy treasures fill the world | C |
And thine exactions reach all provinces | U |
While thirdly many horsemen brave and famed | C |
Within Ir n who gladdened there have left | C |
Son country and their own pure kith and kin | B |
Have parted this to Chin and that to R m | A |
And now are scattered o'er each march and land | C |
Again when Caesar who had done and borne | B |
So much for thee had given thee a host | C |
And daughter too with treasure and much else | U |
Desired of thee the Cross of Christ for R m | A |
So that his land might be revived thereby | Y |
How did the Cross of Jesus profit so | U |
Thy treasures when complaisance on thy part | C |
Would have made Caesar glad But thou didst not | C |
Restore it hadst not wit enough for that | C |
Or one to guide thee to humanity | C |
Again thy greed was such that wisdom's eye | Y |
Was all obscured in thee and thou didst seize | U |
The chattels of the poor whose curses brought | C |
Ill on thy head Thou slewest thy mother's brothers | U |
Two loyal men who gave thy throne a lustre | V |
Moreover thou hadst sixteen sons whose days | U |
And nights were passed in prison while no chief | Z |
Could sleep secure from thee but hid in fear | D |
Know that which hath befall'n thee is from God | C |
Reflect on thy foul deeds As for myself | Q |
I am but as the instrument in all | T |
This wrong am but the heading of the tale | T |
By God 'twas not my fault no aim of mine | B |
To wreck the Sh h's throne Now for all seek grace | U |
And say so to these chieftains of Ir n | B |
Turn from ill deeds to God the Guide to good | C |
Who may abate the woes that thou hast brought | C |
Upon thyself '' | - |
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On hearing this the twain | B |
Departed with their hearts all seared and sore | A2 |
Till sorrowful and weeping they arrived | C |
At Taisaf n and in that city sought | C |
The palace of Mar sipand for there | B2 |
The exalted king resided Galin sh | S |
Sat at the palace gate thou wouldst have said | C |
'Earth is convulsed before him ' He was armed | C |
In helm and breastplate all the Arab steeds | U |
Wore bards and all his soldiers were drawn up | C2 |
Equipped and sword in hand He grasped a mace | U |
Of steel his heart all fire and storm Now when | B |
Kharr d son of Barzin and when Asht d | C |
Son of Gashasp those ages twain dismounted | C |
He rose forthwith rejoiced to look on them | A |
And gave them place befitting hailing them | A |
As famous chiefs The eloquent Kharr d | C |
First laved his tongue in valour and then said | C |
To Galin sh 'Kub d the glorious | U |
Hath donned in peace the Kaian crown Ir n | B |
T ran and R m have tidings that Shirwi | P |
Is seated on the throne of king of kings | U |
Why this cuirass and helm and massive mace | U |
Who is thine enemy ' | - |
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Said Galin sh | S |
'O veteran may all thy doings prosper | V |
Thou art concerned about my tender frame | A |
Because I am in iron garniture | V |
I bless thee for thy kindness thou deservest | C |
That I shall sprinkle jewels over thee | C |
Thy words are naught but good and may the sun | B |
Be thine associate in the world Declare | V |
Why thou hast come then look for my reply ' | - |
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He thus gave answer 'Glorious Kub d | C |
Commisioned me to bear Khusrau Parwiz | U |
A message and if now thou wilt ask audience | U |
I will deliver what the world lord said | C |
That monarch of the flock ' | - |
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Said Galin sh | S |
'Who can remember words so well as thou | L |
O worshipful yet nathless Sh h Kub d | C |
Gave me full many a counsel touching this | U |
And charged me saying 'Let none have by day | C |
Or night an audience of Khusrau Parwiz | U |
Unless thou hearest what the messenger | V |
Hath got to say in Persian new or old '' | - |
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Asht d said 'I hold not my message secret | C |
O fortunate It is 'The sword is fruiting | H |
And nuzzling princes' heads ' In this regard | C |
Now ask for audience of Khusrau Parwiz | U |
That we may tell the message of the Sh h ' | - |
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This hearing Galin sh arose made fast | C |
His mail went to the Sh h with folded arms | U |
As servants should and said thus 'Love for ever | V |
O Sh h May evil never vex thy heart | C |
There cometh by Asht d and by Kharr d | C |
Son of Barzin a message from the Sh h | - |
From court ' | - |
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Khusrau Parwiz laughed out and said | C |
'Speak wiser words for if he be the king | H |
Then what am I and why am I within | B |
This narrow prison and why need'st thou ask | D2 |
That I shall grant an audience unto any | C |
Be their words false or true ' | - |
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So Galin sh | S |
Returned to those two warriors reported | C |
The answer of the paladin and said | C |
'Now go with folded arms declare your message | W |
And hearken his reply ' | - |
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Those sages twain | B |
Of honest speech inswathed their visages | U |
In sashes brought from Chin and when they saw | U |
The Sh h did reverence and waited long | E2 |
What while he sat upon a lofty throne | B |
Adorned with effigies of sheep and wolves | U |
Impleached with gold and gems with under him | A |
A couch of yellow broidery He leaned | C |
On cushions hued like lapis lazuli | C |
Held a fine quince and drowsed there all amort | C |
When he beheld those chiefs supreme in wisdom | A |
He roused himself and secretly invoked | C |
God's help He laid that fine quince on the cushions | U |
That he might welcome those two wayfarers | U |
The quince slipped from the cusions rolled unbruised | C |
Upon the couch and thence from throne to floor | V |
Asht d ran took it up wiped off the dust | C |
And laid the quince upon his head The world lord | C |
Turned from Asht d that he might neither see | U |
Nor scent the quince they set it on the throne | B |
And stood themselves The matter of the quince | U |
Perturbed Khusrau Parwiz who boded ill | T |
Looked up to heaven and said 'O truthful Judge | W |
Who can establish one whom Thou o'erthrowest | C |
Who join what Thou hast broken When bright fortune | B |
Departeth from a race it bringeth sorrow | V |
Because the day of joy is passed away ' | - |
Abul-qasim Ferdowsi Tusi
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