Benares Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC A DEDE A FGFG HIHI JKJK| I | A |
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| I stood by the Ganges and watch'd the pilgrim's come and go | B |
| Forth from the city's streets and lanes and all of India's land | C |
| Stood in the ghats and saw them coming going fast and slow | B |
| Out of the streets and plains and jungles and hot desert sand | C |
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| II | A |
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| All races and peoples and castes they came to the stream | D |
| From all lands of the East and some of the faraway West | E |
| There by the Ganges I saw them under the burning beam | D |
| Of India's sun king and beggar the worst and the best | E |
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| III | A |
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| And lo I saw the blind jacquer stand by the Rajah's side | F |
| Each one stood judged not by rank and power but acts and deeds | G |
| All men came with their sins to stand the Ganges stream beside | F |
| To bathe in its holy waters his and his brother's needs | G |
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| IV | - |
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| Down by the ghats I saw them come out from the tribes of man | H |
| Out of the cities and jungles and deserts of the East | I |
| Turban of red and turban of white as the river ran | H |
| I beheld each by his brother's side the greatest and the least | I |
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| V | - |
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| The temples of sandstone shimmered in the haze of sultry heat | J |
| The river gleamed as gleams a glittering Orient blade | K |
| Out on the ghat the people came the holy stream to meet | J |
| I saw the Rajah's palankeen the priest within his shade | K |
Clark Ashton Smith
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