Canto Xlix: For The Seven Lakes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKLMNOPO HC OQKKO RSKL KTLK HKUO VVWV XYOKJ LLFor 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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