The River Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJK LMNOPQFR STRFUV WXVLWFYLZA2B2HC2D2E2 F2BVG2H2I2VJ2E2E2XE2 E2K2L2| This boat is of shato wood and its gunwales are cut | A |
| magnolia | B |
| Musicians with jewelled flutes and with pipes of gold | C |
| Fill full the sides in rows and our wine | D |
| Is rich for a thousand cups | E |
| We carry singing girls drift with the drifting water | F |
| Yet Sennin needs | G |
| A yellow stork for a charger and all our seamen | H |
| Would follow the white gulls or ride them | I |
| Kutsu's prose song | J |
| Hangs with the sun and moon | K |
| - | |
| King So's terraced palace | L |
| is now but barren hill | M |
| But I draw pen on this barge | N |
| Causing the five peaks to tremble | O |
| And I have joy in these words | P |
| like the joy of blue islands | Q |
| If glory could last forever | F |
| Then the waters of Han would flow northward | R |
| - | |
| And I have moped in the Emperor's garden awaiting an | S |
| order to write | T |
| I looked at the dragon pond with its willow coloured | R |
| water | F |
| Just reflecting the sky's tinge | U |
| And heard the five score nightingales aimlessly singing | V |
| - | |
| The eastern wind brings the green colour into the island | W |
| grasses at Yei shu | X |
| The purple house and the crimson are full of Spring | V |
| softness | L |
| South of the pond the willow tips are half blue and | W |
| bluer | F |
| Their cords tangle in mist against the brocade like | Y |
| palace | L |
| Vine strings a hundred feet long hang down from | Z |
| carved railings | A2 |
| And high over the willows the fine birds sing to each | B2 |
| other and listen | H |
| Crying Kwan Kuan ' for the early wind and the feel | C2 |
| of it | D2 |
| The wind bundles itself into a bluish cloud and wanders | E2 |
| off | F2 |
| Over a thousand gates over a thousand doors are the | B |
| sounds of spring singing | V |
| And the Emperor is at Ko | G2 |
| Five clouds hang aloft bright on the purple sky | H2 |
| The imperial guards come forth from the golden house | I2 |
| with their armour a gleaming | V |
| The Emperor in his jewelled car goes out to inspect his | J2 |
| flowers | E2 |
| He goes out to Hori to look at the wing flapping storks | E2 |
| He returns by way of Sei rock to hear the new | X |
| nightingales | E2 |
| For the gardens at Jo run are full of new nightingales | E2 |
| Their sound is mixed in this flute | K2 |
| Their voice is in the twelve pipes here | L2 |
Ezra Pound
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