The River-merchant's Wife: A Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEDFGHIJKJ LMNOP DGQOR SOTUVC WRJXYJZA2B2JOC2DD2LE 2 F2 J| After Li Po | A |
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| While my hair was still cut straight | B |
| across my forehead | C |
| I played at the front gate pulling | D |
| flowers | E |
| You came by on bamboo stilts playing | D |
| horse | F |
| You walked about my seat playing with | G |
| blue plums | H |
| And we went on living in the village of | I |
| Chokan | J |
| Two small people without dislike or | K |
| suspicion | J |
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| At fourteen I married My Lord you | L |
| I never laughed being bashful | M |
| Lowering my head I looked at the wall | N |
| Called to a thousand times I never | O |
| looked back | P |
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| At fifteen I stopped scowling | D |
| I desired my dust to be mingled with | G |
| yours | Q |
| Forever and forever and forever | O |
| Why should I climb the lookout | R |
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| At sixteen you departed | S |
| You went into far Ku to en by the river | O |
| of swirling eddies | T |
| And you have been gone five months | U |
| The monkeys make sorrowful noise | V |
| overhead | C |
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| You dragged your feet when you went | W |
| out | R |
| By the gate now the moss is grown | J |
| the different mosses | X |
| Too deep to clear them away | Y |
| The leaves fall early this autumn in | J |
| wind | Z |
| The paired butterflies are already | A2 |
| yellow with August | B2 |
| Over the grass in the West garden | J |
| They hurt me I grow older | O |
| If you are coming down through the | C2 |
| narrows of the river Kiang | D |
| Please let me know beforehand | D2 |
| And I will come out to meet you | L |
| As far as Cho fu sa | E2 |
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| Translated by Ezra Pound | F2 |
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| Anonymous submission | J |
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