Canto Xlix: For The Seven Lakes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKLMNOPO HC OQKKO RSKL KTLK HKUO VVWV XYOKJ LL| For the seven lakes and by no man these verses | A |
| Rain empty river a voyage | B |
| Fire from frozen cloud heavy rain in the twilight | C |
| Under the cabin roof was one lantern | D |
| The reeds are heavy bent | E |
| and the bamboos speak as if weeping | F |
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| Autumn moon hills rise about lakes | G |
| against sunset | H |
| Evening is like a curtain of cloud | I |
| a blurr above ripples and through it | J |
| sharp long spikes of the cinnamon | K |
| a cold tune amid reeds | L |
| Behind hill the monk's bell | M |
| borne on the wind | N |
| Sail passed here in April may return in October | O |
| Boat fades in silver slowly | P |
| Sun blaze alone on the river | O |
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| Where wine flag catches the sunset | H |
| Sparse chimneys smoke in the cross light | C |
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| Comes then snow scur on the river | O |
| And a world is covered with jade | Q |
| Small boat floats like a lanthorn | K |
| The flowing water closts as with cold And at San Yin | K |
| they are a people of leisure | O |
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| Wild geese swoop to the sand bar | R |
| Clouds gather about the hole of the window | S |
| Broad water geese line out with the autumn | K |
| Rooks clatter over the fishermen's lanthorns | L |
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| A light moves on the north sky line | K |
| where the young boys prod stones for shrimp | T |
| In seventeen hundred came Tsing to these hill lakes | L |
| A light moves on the South sky line | K |
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| State by creating riches shd thereby get into debt | H |
| This is infamy this is Geryon | K |
| This canal goes still to TenShi | U |
| Though the old king built it for pleasure | O |
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| K E I M E N R A N K E I | V |
| K I U M A N M A N K E I | V |
| JITSU GETSU K O K W A | W |
| T A N FUKU T A N K A I | V |
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| Sun up work | X |
| sundown to rest | Y |
| dig well and drink of the water | O |
| dig field eat of the grain | K |
| Imperial power is and to us what is it | J |
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| The fourth the dimension of stillness | L |
| And the power over wild beasts | L |
Ezra Pound
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