To The Recluse, Wei Pa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBEFGHBBIHJKL| Often in this life of ours we resemble in our failure to meet the Shen and | A |
| Shang constellations one of which rises as the other one sets What lucky | B |
| chance is it then that brings us together this evening under the light of | C |
| this same lamp Youth and vigor last but a little time Each of us now has | D |
| greying temples Half of the friends we ask each other about are dead and our | E |
| shocked cries sear the heart Who could have guessed that it would be twenty | B |
| years before I sat once more beneath your roof Last time we parted you were | E |
| still unmarried but now here suddenly is a row of boys and girls who | F |
| smilingly pay their respects to their father's old friend They ask me where I | G |
| have come from but before I have finished dealing with their questions the | H |
| children are hurried off to fetch us wine Spring chives are cut in the rainy | B |
| dark and there is freshly steamed rice mixed with yellow millet Come we | B |
| don't meet often ' you hospitably urge pouring out ten cupfuls in rapid | I |
| succession That I am still not drunk after ten cups of wine is due to the | H |
| strength of the emotion which your unchanging friendship inspires Tomorrow | J |
| the peak will lie between us and each will be lost to the other swallowed up | K |
| in the world's affairs | L |
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