Way To Go Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFEGHIJJKELML NOOPQKRSKKTKKTUKKKKT RTHKKVKKEEKE WGXM| She was born in the hills | A |
| dotted with villages quiet and small | B |
| Her village was breathtakingly beautiful | C |
| With a scenic landscape | D |
| A free flowing humming river | E |
| And a little noisy waterfall | B |
| In such a divine backdrop | F |
| No wonder | E |
| She lived a free soul's blissful human life | G |
| From birth till her marriage | H |
| To an equally free spirited man | I |
| My grandpa | J |
| Yes she was my grandma | J |
| My Dadi | K |
| They lived a long happy life together | E |
| A year long association | L |
| But for any pain or sorrow | M |
| There was hardly an occasion | L |
| - | |
| Till much after my grandpa's demise | N |
| Dadi then well into her seventies was still firmly in her zone | O |
| Until we all thought she couldn't be left alone | O |
| Any more | P |
| So she was shifted to our house here | Q |
| In the city | K |
| For her due care | R |
| For about a decade she shared with me her room as well as her experiences back home | S |
| Hardly was there a day | K |
| When she had nothing to say | K |
| about her village | T |
| And implicitly the price she had to pay | K |
| To stay away | K |
| She yearned for her village | T |
| As she felt suffocated in the city like a bird in cage | U |
| On one such occasion she confided in me that she felt lovely | K |
| Alright | K |
| But quite lonely | K |
| Without Dada | K |
| Who she thought was waiting for her in the village | T |
| And that she wanted to take her last breath there | R |
| So papa was persuaded to make a family trip to the village | T |
| It was a relative's marriage | H |
| The whole village gathered under the moonlight | K |
| Full of fun and frolic the celebrations went all through the night | K |
| There was music | V |
| There was sound | K |
| And a happy Dadi kept dancing around | K |
| As she went to sleep later | E |
| She asked for a glass of water | E |
| Drank it and slept | K |
| Never to be awake thereafter | E |
| - | |
| We all were left dazed and amazed wondering | W |
| What a splendid spell of life | G |
| What a way to live | X |
| What a way to go | M |
C K Rawat
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Rajni Rawat: Wonderful poem about thoughts ,feelings , emotion and love for Dadi...UNFORGETABLE !!!
CKRawat: It is abt your Dadi only, Bhai Sahab. Renu and I wrote it together.
Sudhir: Awesome ! Very beautiful and simple way of describing life and aspirations of your Dadi. It brings out memories of my Dadi. Nice way to remember. Well done.
Manali Bhatt: This poem just took me to that era..
Beautiful life described in beautiful words.
Mo Az: Seems your Dadi loved your dada a lot , and I hope their journey of love continues on the other side. Very beautiful and vivid. Love the emotions. Do go through some of mine when you get some time ;)
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