Sestina: Here In Katmandu Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF FAEBDC CFDABE ECBFAD DEACFB BDFECA| We have climbed the mountain | A |
| There's nothing more to do | B |
| It is terrible to come down | C |
| To the valley | D |
| Where amidst many flowers | E |
| One thinks of snow | F |
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| As formerly amidst snow | F |
| Climbing the mountain | A |
| One thought of flowers | E |
| Tremulous ruddy with dew | B |
| In the valley | D |
| One caught their scent coming down | C |
| - | |
| It is difficult to adjust once down | C |
| To the absense of snow | F |
| Clear days from the valley | D |
| One looks up at the mountain | A |
| What else is there to do | B |
| Prayer wheels flowers | E |
| - | |
| Let the flowers | E |
| Fade the prayer wheels run down | C |
| What have they to do | B |
| With us who have stood atop the snow | F |
| Atop the mountain | A |
| Flags seen from the valley | D |
| - | |
| It might be possible to live in the valley | D |
| To bury oneself among flowers | E |
| If one could forget the mountain | A |
| How never once looking down | C |
| Stiff blinded with snow | F |
| One knew what to do | B |
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| Meanwhile it is not easy here in Katmandu | B |
| Especially when to the valley | D |
| That wind which means snow | F |
| Elsewhere but here means flowers | E |
| Comes down | C |
| As soon it must from the mountain | A |
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