Escorting Candidates To The Examination Hall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDDEDFGHIJKDL| At dawn I rode to escort the Doctors of Art | A |
| In the eastern quarter the sky was still grey | B |
| I said to myself 'You have started far too soon ' | C |
| But horses and coaches already thronged the road | D |
| High and low the riders' torches bobbed | D |
| Muffled or loud the watchman's drum beat | D |
| Riders when I see you prick | E |
| To your early levee pity fills my heart | D |
| When the sun rises and the hot dust flies | F |
| And the creatures of earth resume their great strife | G |
| You with your striving what shall you each seek | H |
| Profit and fame for that is all your care | I |
| But I you courtiers rise from my bed at noon | J |
| And live idly in the city of Ch'ang an | K |
| Spring is deep and my term of office spent | D |
| Day by day my thoughts go back to the hills | L |
Bai Juyi
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