Old Idea Of Choan By Rosoriu Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIIBJKLMBI ANOPQRSTSUAQVRBWS| I | A |
| The narrow streets cut into the wide highway at Choan | B |
| Dark oxen white horses | C |
| drag on the seven coaches with outriders | D |
| The coaches are perfumed wood | E |
| The jewelled chair is held up at the crossway | F |
| Before the royal lodge | G |
| A glitter of golden saddles awaiting the princess | H |
| They eddy before the gate of the barons | I |
| The canopy embroidered with dragons | I |
| drinks in and casts back the sun | B |
| Evening comes | J |
| The trappings are bordered with mist | K |
| The hundred cords of mist are spread through | L |
| and double the trees | M |
| Night birds and night women | B |
| Spread out their sounds through the gardens | I |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Birds with flowery wing hovering butterflies | N |
| crowd over the thousand gates | O |
| Trees that glitter like jade | P |
| terraces tinged with silver | Q |
| The seed of a myriad hues | R |
| A net work of arbours and passages and covered ways | S |
| Double towers winged roofs | T |
| border the net work of ways | S |
| A place of felicitous meeting | U |
| Riu's house stands out on the sky | A |
| with glitter of colour | Q |
| As Butei of Kan had made the high golden lotus | V |
| to gather his dews | R |
| Before it another house which I do not know | B |
| How shall we know all the friends | W |
| whom we meet on strange roadways | S |
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