The Dragon Of The Black Pool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFGCHCHIHJHKLGC MNOCPQ| Deep the waters of the Black Pool colored like ink | A |
| They say a Holy Dragon lives there whom men have never seen | B |
| Beside the Pool they have built a shrine the authorities | C |
| have established a ritual | D |
| A dragon by itself remains a dragon but men can make it a god | E |
| Prosperity and disaster rain and drought plagues and pestilences | C |
| By the village people were all regarded as the Sacred Dragon s doing | F |
| They all made offerings of sucking pig and poured libations of wine | G |
| The morning prayers and evening gifts depended on a medium s advice | C |
| When the dragon comes ah | H |
| The wind stirs and sighs | C |
| Paper money thrown ah | H |
| Silk umbrellas waved | I |
| When the dragon goes ah | H |
| The wind also still | J |
| Incense fire dies ah | H |
| The cups and vessels are cold | K |
| Meats lie stacked on the rocks of the Pool s shore | L |
| Wine flows on the grass in front of the shrine | G |
| I do not know of all those offerings how much the Dragon eats | C |
| But the mice of the woods and the foxes of the hills are continually drunk and sated | M |
| Why are the foxes so lucky | N |
| What have the sucking pigs done | O |
| That year by year they should be killed merely to glut the foxes | C |
| That the foxes are robbing the Sacred Dragon and eating His sucking pig | P |
| Beneath the nine fold depths of His pool does He know or not | Q |
Bai Juyi
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