The Death Of Yazdagird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEABFGHABI BJKBE LLBMNC O PCQMROCEBCB D STUUTABUAAOUCUVWTUTX BAUXANYBBUUUUTTZXCC BBXA2XBTUB2CAUAABUCT BYB C UUC2D2 UUB XUB2KE U TABBUUCB UKT E2AF2 D2G2BH2I2F2CUAUCUYZ CXD2K BZUNTCOBB2ABOAUUUBCC UBCEEBJ2UF2| From the Shahnameh | A |
| There was a paladin a Turk by race | B |
| A man of influence and named Bizhan | C |
| He dwelt within the coasts of Samarkand | D |
| Where he had many kin Ill starred Mahwi | E |
| Becoming self assertive wrote to him | A |
| 'Thou prosperous scion of the paladins | B |
| A strife hath risen that will bring thee profit | F |
| The Sh h is of all places here at Marv | G |
| And with no troops His head and crown and state | H |
| Wealth throne and host are thine if thou wilt come | A |
| Recall the vengeance owing to thy sires | B |
| And give this unjust race its just reward ' | I |
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| Bizhan considering the letter saw | B |
| That insolent Mahwi would win the world | J |
| Then spake thus to his minister 'Thou chief | K |
| Of upright men what sayest thou to this | B |
| If I lead forth a host to aid Mahwi | E |
| 'Twill be my ruin here ' | - |
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| The minister | L |
| Replied 'O lion hearted warrior | L |
| 'Twere shame to help Mahwi and then withdraw | B |
| Command Bars m to set forth with a host | M |
| To aid upon this scene of strife The sage | N |
| Will term thee daft to go and fight in person | C |
| At the insistence of this man of S r ' | - |
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| Bizhan replied ''Tis well I will not go | O |
| Myself ' | - |
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| He therefore bade Bars m to lead | P |
| Ten thousand valiant cavaliers and swordsmen | C |
| To Marv with all the implements of war | Q |
| If haply he might take the Sh h That host | M |
| Went like a flying pheasant from Bukh r | R |
| To Marv within one week One night at cock crow | O |
| The sound of tymbals went up from the plain | C |
| How could the king of kings suspect Mahwi | E |
| Of S r to be his enemy Shouts rose | B |
| A cavalier reached Yazdagird at dawn | C |
| To say 'Mahwi said thus 'A host of Turks | B |
| Hath come What is the bidding of the Sh h | - |
| The Kh n and the Faghf r of Chin command | D |
| Earth is not able to support their host '' | - |
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| The Sh h wroth donned his mail The armies ranged | S |
| He formed his troops to right and left and all | T |
| Advanced to battle Spear in hand he held | U |
| The center and the whole world was bedimmed | U |
| With flying dust He saw how lustily | T |
| The Turks engaged unsheathed his sword and came | A |
| As 'twere an elephant before his troops | B |
| Earth Nile wise flowed Like thundering cloud he charged | U |
| But not a warrior supported him | A |
| All turned their backs upon that man of name | A |
| And left him mid the horsemen of the foe | O |
| The world's king when Mahwi withdrew perceived | U |
| The practice hid till then the intent and plan | C |
| To capture him yet played the man in fight | U |
| Displaying valour strength and warriorship | V |
| Slew many at the centre but at length | W |
| Fled in despair with falchion of K bul | T |
| In hand pursued by many Turks He sped | U |
| Like lightning mid night's gloom and spied a mill | T |
| On the canal of Zark Alighting there | X |
| The world's king lay in hiding from his foes | B |
| Within the mill The horsemen searched for him | A |
| All Zark was hue and cry The Sh h abandoned | U |
| His gold trapped steed his mare and scimitar | X |
| With golden sheath The Turks with loud shouts sought him | A |
| Excited by that steed and equipage | N |
| The Sh h within the mill house lurked in hay | Y |
| With this false Hostel thus it ever is | B |
| The ascent is lofty and profound the abyss | B |
| With Yazdagird while fortune slumbered not | U |
| A throne enskied by heaven was his lot | U |
| And now it was a mill Excess of sweet | U |
| Bred bane for him and if thou art discreet | U |
| Affect not this world for its end is ill | T |
| Whiles a tame serpent to the touch it still | T |
| At whiles will bite and hot that bite will be | Z |
| Why then affect this cozening hostelry | X |
| While like a drum the signal to be gone | C |
| Thou hearest bidding 'Bind the baggage on | C |
| And for sole throne the grave's floor look upon ' | - |
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| With mouth untasting and with tearful eyes | B |
| The Sh h abode until the sun arose | B |
| And then the miller oped the mill house door | X |
| He bore a truss of grass upon his back | A2 |
| A low born man was he by name Khusrau | X |
| Poor foolish unrespected purposeless | B |
| He lived upon the profits of his mill | T |
| Which gave him full employment He beheld | U |
| A warrior like a lofty cypress sitting | B2 |
| In dolour on the ground with kingly crown | C |
| Upon his head and with brocade of R m | A |
| Bright on his breast his eyes a stag's his chest | U |
| And neck a lion's of beholding him | A |
| The eye ne'er tired He was unique in form | A |
| Wore golden boots his sleeves were fringed with pearls | B |
| And gold Khusrau looked stood astound and called | U |
| On God then said 'O man of sunlike mien | C |
| Say in what sort thou camest to this mill | T |
| Why didst thou take it for thy resting place | B |
| Full as it is of wheat and dust and hay | Y |
| Who art thou with such form such Grace and looks | B |
| Sure heaven never saw the like of thee ' | - |
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| The Sh h replied 'I am Ir nian born | C |
| In flight before the army of T r n ' | - |
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| The miller said abashed 'I have no comrade | U |
| Save penury but still if barley bread | U |
| With some poor cresses from the river bank | C2 |
| Will serve thee I will bring them naught have I | D2 |
| Besides a man so straitened well may wail ' | - |
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| Through stress of fight the Sh h had rested not | U |
| Or eaten for three days and so replied | U |
| 'Bring what thou hast that and the sacred twigs | B |
| Will serve my turn ' | - |
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| The poor and lowly miller | X |
| Brought him the cresses and the barley bread | U |
| Made haste to fetch the sacred twigs and reaching | B2 |
| The toll house on the way crossed to the chief | K |
| Of Zark to make request for them M hwi | E |
| Had sent men on all sides to find the Sh h | - |
| And so the chieftain asked the miller 'Friend | U |
| For whom need'st thou the sacred twigs ' | - |
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| Khusrau replied 'There is a warrior at the mill | T |
| And seated on the hay a cypress slim | A |
| In height a sun in looks a man of Grace | B |
| With eyebrows arched and melancholy's eyes | B |
| His mouth is full of sighs his soul is sad | U |
| I set stale fare before him barley bread | U |
| Such as I eat myself but he is fain | C |
| To take the sacred twigs while muttering grace | B |
| Thou well mayst muse at him ' | - |
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| The chief rejoined | U |
| 'Go and inform M hwi of S r hereof | K |
| For that foul miscreant must not reveal | T |
| His proper bent when he shall hear of this ' | - |
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| Forthwith he charged a trusty man to take | E2 |
| The miller to M hwi who asked of him | A |
| Then anxious for himself 'For whom dist thou | F2 |
| Require the sacred twigs Tell me the truth ' | - |
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| The miller all a tremble made reply | D2 |
| 'I had been out to fetch a load and flung | G2 |
| The mill door open roughly when know this | B |
| The sun was in mine eyes but his are like | H2 |
| Those of a startled fawn his locks are dark | I2 |
| As the third watch of night his breath suggesteth | F2 |
| Musk and his face embellisheth his crown | C |
| One that hath never seen the Graces of God | U |
| Should take the mill house key His diadem | A |
| Is full of uncut jewels and his breast | U |
| Bright with the brocade of R m The mill hath grown | C |
| As 'twere a sun through him and yet his food | U |
| Is barley bread his seat upon the hay | Y |
| 'Spring ' thou wouldst say 'in Paradise is he | Z |
| No thane e'er set so tall a cypress tree '' | - |
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| Now when Mahwi had taken thought he knew | C |
| ''Tis none but Yazdagird ' and bade the miller | X |
| 'Haste and cut off his head forthwith or I | D2 |
| Will cut thine own off presently and leave | K |
| None of thy stock alive ' | - |
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| The chiefs the nobles | B |
| And mighty men heard this and all the assembly | Z |
| Were filled with wrath at him their tongues were charged | U |
| With words their eyes with tears An archimage | N |
| By name R dwi whose mind wore wisdom's bridle | T |
| Said to M hwi 'O thou malignant one | C |
| Why hath the Div confused thine eyes This know | O |
| The royal and prophetic offices | B |
| Are two gems set within one finger ring | B2 |
| To break one is to trample life and wisdom | A |
| Beneath thy feet Reflect upon thy words | B |
| And then forbear Be not the Maker's foe | O |
| First will disaster come on thee herefrom | A |
| Then thou wilt leave a seed plot for thy child | U |
| With fruit of colocynth and leafage blood | U |
| Ere long thou wilt behold thy head abased | U |
| They villainy will be exposed thy sons | B |
| Will reap what thou hast sown This deed of thine | C |
| Will wreck the Faith of God and crown and throne | C |
| Will curse thee ' | - |
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| Then a devotee devout | U |
| Who never put his hand forth to injustice | B |
| By name Hurmuzd son of Kharr d a man | C |
| Who rested in the Faith said to M hwi | E |
| 'O thou oppressor quit not thus the way | E |
| Of holy God I see thy heart and sense | B |
| Bedimmed We see thy breast a tomb Though strong | J2 |
| Thou hast no brain thy mind is weak thou seekest | U |
| The smoke and not the | F2 |
Abul-qasim Ferdowsi Tusi
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