Watching The Reapers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJGKLMNOCPQR SITillers of the soil have few idle months | A |
In the fifth month their toil is double fold | B |
A south wind visits the fields at night | C |
Suddenly the hill is covered with yellow corn | D |
Wives and daughters shoulder baskets of rice | E |
Youths and boys carry the flasks of wine | F |
Following after they bring a wage of meat | G |
To the strong reapers toiling on the southern hill | H |
Whose feet are burned by the hot earth they tread | I |
Whose backs are scorched by flames of the shining sky | J |
Tired they toil caring nothing for the heat | G |
Grudging the shortness of the long summer day | K |
A poor woman follows at the reapers' side | L |
With an infant child carried close to her breast | M |
With her right hand she gleans the fallen grain | N |
On her left arm a broken basket hangs | O |
And I today by virtue of what right | C |
Have I never once tended field or tree | P |
My government pay is three hundred tons | Q |
At the year's end I have still grain in hand | R |
Thinking of this secretly I grew ashamed | S |
And all day the thought lingered in my head | I |
Bai Juyi
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