Seasonal Cycle - Chapter 02 - Rainy Season Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C C C C D A E C B B E F G H B C I| Oh dear now the kingly monsoon is onset with its clouds containing raindrops as its ruttish elephants in its convoy and with skyey flashes of lighting as its pennants and buntings and with the thunders of thunderbolts as its percussive drumbeats thus this rainy season has come to pass radiately shining forth like a king for the delight of voluptuous people | A |
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| By far the vault of heaven is overly impregnated with massive clouds that are similar to the gleam of blackish petals of black costuses somewhere they are similar to the glitter of the heaps of well kneaded blackish mascara and elsewhere they glisten like the blackened nipples of bosoms of pregnant women ready to rain the elixir of life on the lips of her offspring when that offspring is actualised | B |
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| The stock of Caataka birds that is disquieted with thirst and though praying prayerfully for raindrops those water filled danglers in the sky namely the clouds that have many showers to shower and though their rumblings are heart stealing and ear filling indicating rainfall but those clouds are drifting away slowly heedless of the prayers of poor Caataka birds | C |
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| The clouds in their warrior march are wielding crashes of thunderbolts as their drum kits and the flashes of lightning as the fluttering flashes of the bowstring of rainbow and even they are unloosening very sharp arrows from that rainbow called the sharply torrents only to rend the lovelorn hearts of itinerants that too ruthlessly in their war on behalf of their ladyloves | C |
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| The earth with grass sprouts seems spread with lapis gems that are shred to smithereens for the grass has yet not attained that much greenery and muchly sprouted and overspread are the greenish leaves of Kandali plants that suddenly sprout in rainy seasons and amidst which greensward red insects are muchly mosaicked thus the earth is beaming forth like a best lady decorated in many coloured jewels other than whitish diamonds and other crystalline ones | C |
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| This cloudy and showery environ is evermore heart pleasing to peacocks hence they are screaming with hilarity and fidgety and the whole stock of peacocks is brilliant when its fanlike expansive plumage is outstretched and on impulsively petting and pecking peahens now they have commenced their peacock dance | C |
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| Highly intensified is the rapidity of the waters of these maidens called rivers which similes with the promptitude of maidens with misdemeanour where these waters are new and thus miry while those dames are newly maturated and thus they are in the mire of maturity while these waters are hurtling hastily towards their lover called the ocean with a seasonally created excitement those damsels are flirtatiously jaunting with their flirty lovers and in doing so both of them are reckless about their own kith and kin since the rapid watercourse of rivers is felling its riverine trees ubiquitously and the flirty jaunting of those dames is felling the reputation of her family far and wide ah a season is the culprit to cause a seasonal itch | D |
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| With the advent of rains upshot are the tender sprouts of grass and the greensward when grazed by deer and other grazers it is divers in its hue somewhere with blackish patches elsewhere with stacks of grass and somewhere else with verdant pastures and with their upcast tender leaflets the trees are ornately decorating the Vindhya mountains thus the environ is heart stealing picturesquely | A |
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| Oh dear sheeny are the faces of the deer with their swiftly zipping eyes which are akin to black lotuses and to your eyes as well and they the deer and you zip your eyes more and more when there is a thunder or a rumble then you run into my embrace as they run to overcrowd the white sand beds amidst lushly thickets of forests and this georgic beauty of forests and the graceful beauty of yours all this is promptly rendering the heart highly ecstatic | E |
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| Though the cloud cover rendered the nights as pitch dark and though thundering is thunderous and though the pathways on ground are indiscernible for it is pitch black even in such nights the lover seeking women are making haste on those paths that are indiscernibly shown by the flashes of torch lights called the flashes of lightning for they are impassioned to meet their lovers to all intents and purposes | C |
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| A couple sleeping on a bed but each at the each end of that bed and when her man is in sound sleep she is without any rapid eye movement for she is thinking that rapidly about the peccadilloes of her man with some 'other' woman women and when she wanted to conclude her man to be a beguiler as said guuDha vi priya kR it SaThaH 'one who performs libidinous deeds stealthily is a beguiler ' then a thunderous cloud thundered thunderingly and in a trice she embraced her man in an airtight manner notwithstanding his slyness for he is her man thus the seasons unite the divided | B |
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| While their lotus like eyes are shedding teardrops that are moistening their delicate and tender leaf like lower lips that are crimson in colour like Bimba fruit a lip like small gourd fruit that becomes crimson red when ripened and they are rejecting their garlands ornaments or cosmetics for those ladyloves of itinerants are staying back at home hopeless of the return of their men in this season as said proSite malinaa kR ishaa 'by sojourners enmired and emaciated are their wives ' thus the seasons divide the united | B |
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| Though the rainwater is new and crystalline but when collected by river it turned to whitish yellow colour of the soil for begrimed is the river water with dirt grass and insects and when it is skittering off in a serpiginous course facing a declivitous path towards ocean the stock of frogs that have come out of that river seeking rain they have observed that river with some trepidation for those frogs are sceptical whether a python is snaking or a pythonic river is slinking | E |
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| Rains denuded the flowers of their petals therefor on abandoning the petal less lotuses the honeybees solicitous of nectar and desirous to swarm the newborn peacock coloured costuses buzzing mellifluously they are muddle headedly swarming on the circular fanlike plumages of peacocks that are twitch dancing in the rain | F |
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| When dark clouds full with new waters are thundering repeatedly the ruttish wild elephants are repeatedly responding them with their own trumpeting on the premiss that the thunders are the trumping of the 'other she elephants' in rut and while the cheeks of those elephants are shining like the shiny black lotuses and rife with ruttish tallowy fluids hordes of honeybees are harrying them for that tallowy stench | G |
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| The silver clouds that vie with the whiteness of white lotuses are kissing the black boulders of mountains on mountaintops while the mountainsides are bestrewn with mountain rapids and widespread with debut dancing of peacocks and all this is inducing a carnivalesque visual revelry | H |
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| The zephyr is smoothly ruffling the treetops of Kadamba Sarja Arjuna and Ketaki trees in woodlands and the fragrance of those flowers is wafting windswept further allied with the coolant clouds that are with cool droplets of rainwater the breeze in this rainy season is muchly fragranced and coolant as well then why can't this breeze breath affair of the heat in any heart | B |
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| While the braids are dangling down onto the convexities of the their fundaments their heads coroneted with flowers of fine fragrance and while the pearly pendants are dangling from upon the convexities of their breasts and while their gleeful faces are aromatic with strong drinks thus these voluptuous women are niftily arousing arousal in their lovers | C |
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| Well decorated are the water bearing blackish clouds with the wiry flashes of lightning and with rainbows and they are flashily dangling down | I |
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