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