Seasonal Cycle - Chapter 01 - Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E A A F F E E A E G E A E H A A A| Oh dear this utterly sweltering season of the highly rampant sun is drawing nigh and it will always be good enough to go on taking daytime baths as the lakes and rivers will still be with plenteous waters and at the end of the day nightfall will be pleasant with fascinating moon and in such nights Love god can somehow be almost mollified who tortured us in the previous vernal season but now without His sweltering us we can happily enjoy the nights devouring cool soft drinks and dancing and merrymaking in outfields | A |
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| Oh beloved one somewhere the moon shoved the blackish columns of night aside somewhere else the palace chambers with water showering sprinkling and splashing machines are highly exciting and else where the matrices of gems like coolant pearls and moon stone etc are there and even the pure sandalwood is liquefied besides other coolant scents thus this season gets an adoration from all the people | B |
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| The beloved ones will enjoy the summer's clear late nights while they are atop the rooftops of buildings that are delightful and fragranced well while they savour the passion intensifiers like strong drinks and while the ladylove's face suspires the bouquets of those drinks together with melodious instrumental and vocal music | C |
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| The women are ameliorating the heat of their lovers with their chicly silken coolant fineries gliding onto their rotund fundaments for they are knotted loosely and on those silks glissading are their golden cinctures with their dangling tassels that are unfastened on and off and with their buxom bosoms that are bedaubed with sandal paste and semi covered with pearly strings and golden lavalieres and with their locks of hair that are sliding onto their faces which locks are fragrant with bath time emulsions which are just applied before their oil bath | D |
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| Brightly coloured with the reddish foot paint that is akin to the colour of lac's reddish resin adorned with anklets that are festooned with jingling bells whose tintinnabulations on their stepping after stepping mimic the clucks of swans with such feet those women with bumpy behinds are rendering the hearts of people impassioned in these days of pre summer | E |
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| These days the bosoms of womenfolk are bedaubed with scents and sandal paste and they are given out to snowily and whitely pearly pendants that are sported on those bosoms and even their hiplines are with the dangling golden griddle strings with such a lovely ostentation whose heart is it that does not fill with raptures | A |
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| The seams of limbs of ladies of age are conquered by the often emerging sweat thus those peaky bosomed lustful ladies are presently banding their bosoms with softish fineries casting aside their roughish apparels | A |
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| The rustles of air comprising the aroma of watered sandal paste blown off by the fans with peacocks' plumage and the rustle of strings of pearls when the roundish bosoms of loves are hugged together with the subtle melody of string instruments and subtly sung intonations of singers now appear to awaken Love god Manmatha who is as though asleep after his manoeuvres in the last spring season | F |
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| On leisurely seeing the faces of the maids that are comfortably sleeping well on the tops of whitish edifices the moon of these nights is highly ecstasized for he is unpossessed with any such flawless face as his own face is flawed with rabbit like deer like foibles and when the night dwindles he doubtlessly goes into state of pallidity as though ashamed to show his face to the flawless sun | F |
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| The intolerable westerly wind of the summer is up heaving the clouds of dust even the earth is ablaze set by the blazing sun and the itinerants whose hearts are already put to blaze by the blazing called the detachment from their ladyloves and now it has become impossible for them even to look at the blazing earth to tread further | E |
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| The reigning sun's torridity rendered the animals parched and with unquenchable thirst highly shrivelled are their tongues throats and lips and on seeing kneaded blackish mascara like mirages on the sky in another forest that are cloudlike in their shine those animals are rushing there presuming them to be water | E |
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| The women of charm are with smiles and slanted looks and now they are on par with the twilights that are ornamented with a beautiful ornament called moon and they are now decorating themselves confusedly and they are inciting the incorporeal Love god in the hearts of itinerants | A |
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| Extremely seared by the rays of sun and even by the already seared dust on the pathway with its slithery motion and downcast hood repeatedly suspiring when being scalded thus awfully that serpent is sinking down under the pave of peacock's plumage distrait of the fact that a peacock is an enemy of serpents thus distrait is the relative danger from a born enemy or from the searing summer | E |
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| Thwarted are the valorousness and venturesomeness of that king of animals the lion for the thirst is abnormal thereby gaping his mouth much lengthily and suspiring repeatedly with a lengthened and dangling tongue and repeatedly whisking his frontal hair of the mane that lion is not pawing the elephants though they are at his nearby and though they both of them are born rivals thus the scalding summer cooled off their mutual contempt | G |
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| Verily dried up are their throats but somehow some cool water remaining in their trunks is brought to those dry throats with the prehensility of their trunks but too scanty is that water for those mega vores further muchly scorched by sun's scorching rays and overpowered by heightened thirst even those water seeking tuskers are unafraid of those nearby lions as negligible is the physical danger than the natural danger | E |
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| The scorching sunrays that are akin to the tongues of blazed up Ritual fire by them the bodies as well as the souls of peacocks are wilted thus they wedge their faces in the pack of their plumage for certain coolness and though they mark the serpents that are milling about under the very same plumage through the plumes and feathers they peck not those serpents to death as their priority is to cool off their faces and heads | A |
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| The slime in the ponds is dried up but in some areas Bhadramusta grass is available and while the herd of wild boars is digging up that grass with their long and broad snouts for a piggish slumber the sunrays have highly sweltered their backs but that herd dug the dry swamp more and more as though to enter the interior of earth to get a mucky miry muddy slumber | E |
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| With the unbearable prickly heat of sunrays highly seared is a frog and jumping up from a pond with mud and muddy water it jumped to sit under the shade of a parasol called the hood of a snake neither thirstier frog is aware that it is the shade of a snake's hood nor the thirstiest snake is aware that it is shading a thirsty frog | H |
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| When each other elephant is highly huddling belaboured is that lake by their elephantine limbs and completely uprooted are the tall slender stems of lilies and lotuses of that lake without any remnants of standing lotuses or lilies thus trampled and agglutinated with mud they are heaped up under the feet of elephants and ill fated are the fishes when trodden by elephants underfoot and the Saarasa waterfowls are fleeing with fear of this rumpus | A |
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| Akin to sunshine upcast is irradiance of the jewel on its hood and wigwagging is its twinned tongue licking the air and it is seared by its own venom by fiery soil and by the searing sun as well and thus tottering thirstily that hooded serpent is not draining the dregs of frogs to the dregs | A |
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| Frothily gaping and reeling are the two pieced snouts and jerkily extruding are the lightly reddened tongues and staggering thirstily looking for water with upraised snouts those herds of s | A |
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