Raja Rao Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGH GI JKLM NMOP QRKS BTBD UVWX YDZX WA2 PB2C2 D2E2G F2F2 OG2 OG2 BG2B2H2| Raja I wish I knew | A |
| the cause of that malady | B |
| For years I could not accept | C |
| the place I was in | D |
| I felt I should be somewhere else | E |
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| A city trees human voices | F |
| lacked the quality of presence | G |
| I would live by the hope of moving on | H |
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| Somewhere else there was a city of real presence | G |
| of real trees and voices and friendship and love | I |
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| Link if you wish my peculiar case | J |
| on the border of schizophrenia | K |
| to the messianic hope | L |
| of my civilization | M |
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| Ill at ease in the tyranny ill at ease in the republic | N |
| in the one I longed for freedom in the other for the end of corruption | M |
| Building in my mind a permanent polis | O |
| forever deprived of aimless bustle | P |
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| I learned at last to say this is my home | Q |
| here before the glowing coal of ocean sunsets | R |
| on the shore which faces the shores of your Asia | K |
| in a great republic moderately corrupt | S |
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| Raja this did not cure me | B |
| of my guilt and shame | T |
| A shame of failing to be | B |
| what I should have been | D |
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| The image of myself | U |
| grows gigantic on the wall | V |
| and against it | W |
| my miserable shadow | X |
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| That's how I came to believe | Y |
| in Original Sin | D |
| which is nothing but the first | Z |
| victory of the ego | X |
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| Tormented by my ego deluded by it | W |
| I give you as you see a ready argument | A2 |
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| I hear you saying that liberation is possible | P |
| and that Socratic wisdom | B2 |
| is identical with your guru's | C2 |
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| No Raja I must start from what I am | D2 |
| I am those monsters which visit my dreams | E2 |
| and reveal to me my hidden essence | G |
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| If I am sick there is no proof whatsoever | F2 |
| that man is a healthy creature | F2 |
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| Greece had to lose her pure consciousness | O |
| had to make our agony only more acute | G2 |
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| We needed God loving us in our weakness | O |
| and not in the glory of beatitude | G2 |
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| No help Raja my part is agony | B |
| struggle abjection self love and self hate | G2 |
| prayer for the Kingdom | B2 |
| and reading Pascal | H2 |
Czeslaw Milosz
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