The Cummerbund Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCD EFEF GHIHJKLK FMFM NON BAE EPQP B KB RSES NTAT| An Indian Poem | A |
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| I | - |
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| She sate upon her Dobie | B |
| To watch the Evening Star | C |
| And all the Punkahs as they passed | D |
| Cried 'My how fair you are ' | - |
| Around her bower with quivering leaves | E |
| The tall Kamsamahs grew | F |
| And Kitmutgars in wild festoons | E |
| Hung down from Tchokis blue | F |
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| II | - |
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| Below her home the river rolled | G |
| With soft meloobious sound | H |
| Where golden finned Chuprassies swam | I |
| In myriads circling round | H |
| Above on talles trees remote | J |
| Green Ayahs perched alone | K |
| And all night long the Mussak moan'd | L |
| Its melancholy tone | K |
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| III | - |
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| And where the purple Nullahs threw | F |
| Their branches far and wide | M |
| And silvery Goreewallahs flew | F |
| In silence side by side | M |
| The little Bheesties' twittering cry | - |
| Rose on the fragrant air | N |
| And oft the angry Jampan howled | O |
| Deep in his hateful lair | N |
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| IV | - |
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| She sate upon her Dobie | B |
| She heard the Nimmak hum | A |
| When all at once a cry arose | E |
| 'The Cummerbund is come ' | - |
| In vain she fled with open jaws | E |
| The angry monster followed | P |
| And so before assistence came | Q |
| That Lady Fair was swallowed | P |
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| V | B |
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| They sought in vain for even a bone | K |
| Respectfully to bury | B |
| They said 'Hers was a dreadful fate ' | - |
| And Echo answered 'Very ' | - |
| They nailed her Dobie to the wall | R |
| Where last her form was seen | S |
| And underneath they wrote these words | E |
| In yellow blue and green | S |
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| Beware ye Fair Ye Fair beware | N |
| Nor sit out late at night | T |
| Lest horrid Cummerbunds should come | A |
| And swallow you outright | T |
Edward Lear
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