The Gao Flower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC EFGCH CGAGG EGHIJ A| I am the Gao flower high in a tree | A |
| You are the grass Long Mai on the path side | B |
| When heat comes down after the dews of morning | C |
| The flower grows pale and tumbles on the grass | D |
| The grass Long Mai that keeps the fallen Gao | C |
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| Folk who let their daughters grow | E |
| Without achieving a husband | F |
| Might easily forget to fence their garden | G |
| Or let their radishes grow flower and rank | C |
| When they could eat them ripe and tender | H |
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| Come to me you that I see walk | C |
| Every night in a red turban | G |
| Young man with the white turban come to me | A |
| We will plant marrows together in a garden | G |
| And there may be little marrows for your children | G |
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| I will dye your turban blue and red and yellow | E |
| You with the white turban | G |
| You that are passing with a load of water | H |
| I call you | I |
| And you do not even turn your head | J |
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| Song of Annam | A |
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