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 versesA
Rain empty river a voyageB
Fire from frozen cloud heavy rain in the twilightC
Under the cabin roof was one lanternD
The reeds are heavy bentE
and the bamboos speak as if weepingF
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Autumn moon hills rise about lakesG
against sunsetH
Evening is like a curtain of cloudI
a blurr above ripples and through itJ
sharp long spikes of the cinnamonK
a cold tune amid reedsL
Behind hill the monk's bellM
borne on the windN
Sail passed here in April may return in OctoberO
Boat fades in silver slowlyP
Sun blaze alone on the riverO
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Where wine flag catches the sunsetH
Sparse chimneys smoke in the cross lightC
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Comes then snow scur on the riverO
And a world is covered with jadeQ
Small boat floats like a lanthornK
The flowing water closts as with cold And at San YinK
they are a people of leisureO
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Wild geese swoop to the sand barR
Clouds gather about the hole of the windowS
Broad water geese line out with the autumnK
Rooks clatter over the fishermen's lanthornsL
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A light moves on the north sky lineK
where the young boys prod stones for shrimpT
In seventeen hundred came Tsing to these hill lakesL
A light moves on the South sky lineK
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State by creating riches shd thereby get into debtH
This is infamy this is GeryonK
This canal goes still to TenShiU
Though the old king built it for pleasureO
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K E I M E N R A N K E IV
K I U M A N M A N K E IV
JITSU GETSU K O K W AW
T A N FUKU T A N K A IV
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Sun up workX
sundown to restY
dig well and drink of the waterO
dig field eat of the grainK
Imperial power is and to us what is itJ
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The fourth the dimension of stillnessL
And the power over wild beastsL

Ezra Pound



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