Seasonal Cycle - Chapter 06 - Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A B C D E F G H I D J K D L M D N O A P D J| quot Oh dear with the just unfolded tender leaflets of Mango trees as his incisive arrows and with shining strings of honeybees as his bowstring the assailant named Vasanta came very nigh to afflict the hearts of those that are fully engaged in affairs of lovemaking | A |
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| quot Oh dear in Vasanta Spring trees are with flowers and waters are with lotuses hence the breezes are agreeably fragrant with the fragrance of those flowers thereby the eventides are comfortable and even the daytimes are pleasant with those fragrant breezes thereby the women are with concupiscence thus everything is highly pleasing | A |
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| quot This Spring season endows prosperity to waters of swimming pools and to moonshine for their water or shine is pleasurable and even to mango trees as their flowers are just flowered more so to the bejewelled girdle strings of women for their wearing is neither cumbersome nor irksome in this season thus it endows prosperity to womenfolk of age as they enjoy in wearing them thus they too become enjoyable these days | B |
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| quot These days the flirtatious women are adorning their roundish behinds with silk cloths that are dyed with Kusumbha flower's reddish dye and their bosomy busts with thin silks that are dyed with ocherish and reddish colours for thinness and silkiness are agreeable in this thinnish ambience | C |
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| quot The womenfolk of age are now decorating their temples with just unfolded new whitish flowers of Karnikara and with new and reddish Ashoka flowers and with whitish jasmines flowers in their blackish hair locks that are swaying thus unfolded is the beauty of these women with the flourishing resplendence of these newly unfolded flowers | D |
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| quot The bosoms of women with burly rumps whose hearts are now flurried by the Love god are now sharing pearly pendants that are wetted with white sandal paste that is bedaubed on their busts and their biceps with circlets of bicep lets and their hiplines with the strings of cinctures that are till recently unbearably coldish to touch thus the touch of season is romantic | E |
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| quot The golden lotuses like faces of flirtatious women are tattooed with erasable foliage tattoos with black Kasturi lines and in those designs sweat drops are now percolating with them those faces are delightfully beautified as gem studded jewellery interspersed with pearls | F |
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| quot Now the limbs of womenfolk are flustered by the Love god thus they are panting for their need fulfilment hence they are now loosening the fastenings of their undergarments since spring fever makes them sultrily fervent thus they are enamoured of their lovers who are tarrying at their nearby | G |
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| quot The Love god is making the limbs of sybaritic women as thinnish palish and lethargic and tending to yawn time and again and with these syndromes the bodies of women are becoming restless in the spring fever with an air of enchantment | H |
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| quot Now the Love god is diversely apparent in women who are jaded out by hard drinks for their eyes are fluttery their cheeks are whitely their bosoms are stony their waists are slimly and their behinds are sturdy thus these features are the evidences for their seasonal infatuation with Him | I |
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| quot Advent to spring Love god makes the limbs of womenfolk sluggishly dizzy with sleepiness He makes their speech a little teeter tottering with sensualities and He also makes their looks aslant with the knitting and unknitting of their eyebrows seeking vehement sensual pleasures | D |
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| quot The frolicsome and lustful women that are with faineance are bedaubing their whitish bosoms with sandal paste in which well kneaded are the fragrant seeds of Priyangu yellowish turmeric saffron and musk to relieve themselves of spring fever | J |
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| quot These days the people whose limbs are wearied down with their desire induced ebullience are wearing thinnish cloths that are fumigated with fragrant aloe vera resin and dyed in the colour of reddish lac resin quickly discarding their coarse clothing for this season is neither coarse nor crude | K |
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| quot The passionate male koel black singing bird on savouring the invigorative essence of just grown flowers of Mango trees is gladdened and passionately kissing his love so also this honeybee abiding in lotuses and savouring their nectar this too is passionately mating with his love to her complaisance sequestered in the petals of lotuses | D |
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| quot Delightful are the branches of mango trees that are laden with bunches of coppery tender leaves and with just flowered flowers and with their heads a little bent down for they simile with the bashful women whose heads are with flowery hairdos and coppery half veils and a little bent down and swaying in lustiness like mango treetops that are gently swaying swayed by the gentle breezes of this season and on identifying themselves with those mango trees the womenfolk is rendered muchly overenthusiastic for love in this spring time | L |
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| quot All over adorned are those Ashoka trees with bunches of reddish folioles and reddish flowers that resemble the hue of red corals and when the new entrants to adulthood are observing those unfolded red flowers those Ashoka trees are making them agonised for unfulfilled is their new longing for a newish love | M |
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| quot The charming flowers of mango trees are with delightful thickish buds and they are overly swilled by tipsy honeybees and slow breezes are flurrying and tilting their delicate leaflets thus when lovelorn youngsters observe them their hearts are quickly ecstasized by those mango trees | D |
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| quot Oh dear the mien of this season is akin to the facial resplendence of ladyloves with the utmost beauty of the clusters of flowers of Kuravaka plants that are uprisen in this season and if this is observed by any good hearted person won't his heart be agonised indeed struck by the arrow of Love god | N |
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| quot The ruddy flowers in springtime are sprung by the winds simile with the reddy flames that are just now set to flame and everywhere the earth is overspread with such brakes of Kimshuka trees and presently when their treetops are bent under the weight of those red flowers whole of this earth similes with a new bride shining forth in her new bridal redly costume and her head a little bent under the half veil of that costume | O |
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| quot Aren't the youthful hearts of youthful lovers that are hidden in the hearts of their pretty faced ladyloves unsplit by these Kimshuka flowers that are in shine with the reddish bills of parrots aren't they already and definitely burnt by the flame like redly Karnikaara flowers then why for this Kokila the black singing bird is again gnawing away those hearts with its gnawingly melodious singing | A |
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| quot Passion is surging out in male Kokila s singing birds as they obtained jollity in this springtime on chewing mango flowers thus they are singing inexplicably and the honeybees when they are drunk with the flowery nectar of those flowers they are also droning hums murmuringly as their drinking song and with these hums and drones the hearts of new brides are flustered in a trice even if they are in the service of their in laws where certain docility and prudishness are in demand | P |
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| quot On the departure of mist fall in springtime the propitious breeze is breezing pleasantly to undulate the flowered branches of Mango trees and to transmit the singings of Kokila s in all directions thereby to steal the hearts of humans who can neither be blatant nor silent of their longings | D |
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| quot These days the pleasure gardens are brightened up with whitely jasmines thus they simile with the toothy grins of sprightly brides and hence they are heart stealing and these gardens are now stealing the hearts of saints or sages that have neutralised their materialistic indulgences long back as such these gardens must have stolen the hearts of youths which are alrea | J |
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