Lament Of The Frontier Guard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFGHHIJKCCLMNOP QRSD| By the North Gate the wind blows full of sand | A |
| Lonely from the beginning of time until now | B |
| Trees fall the grass goes yellow with autumn | C |
| I climb the towers and towers | D |
| to watch out the barbarous land | A |
| Desolate castle the sky the wide desert | E |
| There is no wall left to this village | F |
| Bones white with a thousand frosts | G |
| High heaps covered with trees and grass | H |
| Who brought this to pass | H |
| Who has brought the flaming imperial anger | I |
| Who has brought the army with drums and with kettle drums | J |
| Barbarous kings | K |
| A gracious spring turned to blood ravenous autumn | C |
| A turmoil of wars men spread over the middle kingdom | C |
| Three hundred and sixty thousand | L |
| And sorrow sorrow like rain | M |
| Sorrow to go and sorrow sorrow returning | N |
| Desolate desolate fields | O |
| And no children of warfare upon them | P |
| No longer the men for offence and defence | Q |
| Ah how shall you know the dreary sorrow at the North Gate | R |
| With Rihoku's name forgotten | S |
| And we guardsmen fed to the tigers | D |
Ezra Pound
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