The Cloud Messenger - Part 04 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC ADEF AGHI JKAF ALMN GJAO PFQGR LFKMF SGTF LULV FWXAF MAFK YAZA2 B2C2D2DE2F2 C2AFC2 LAG2D2 H2FFI I2FI2L IKFK NJ2K2IK C2AVJ2JT AJ2L2M2 AN2FFK RC2FG O2HDDFAC2 G2A| The slender young woman who is there would be the premier creation by the | A |
| Creator in the sphere of women with fine teeth lips like a ripe bimba fruit a | A |
| slim waist eyes like a startled gazelle s a deep navel a gait slow on account | B |
| of the weight of her hips and who is somewhat bowed down by her breasts | C |
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| You should know that she whose words are few my second life is like a | A |
| solitary female cakravaka duck when I her mate am far away While these | D |
| weary days are passing I think the girl whose longing is deep has taken on an | E |
| altered appearance like a lotus blighted by frost | F |
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| Surely the face of my beloved her eyes swollen from violent weeping the | A |
| colour of her lower lip changed by the heat of her sighs resting upon her | G |
| hand partially hidden by the hanging locks of her hair bears the miserable | H |
| appearance of the moon with its brightness obscured when pursued by you | I |
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| She will come at once into your sight either engaged in pouring oblations or | J |
| drawing from memory my portrait but grown thin on account of separation | K |
| or asking the sweet voiced sarika bird in its cage I hope you remember the | A |
| master O elegant one for you are his favourite | F |
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| Or having placed a lute on a dirty cloth on her lap friend wanting to sing a | A |
| song whose words are contrived to contain my name and somehow plucking | L |
| the strings wet with tears again and again she forgets the melody even | M |
| though she composed it herself | N |
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| Or engaged in counting the remaining months set from the day of our | G |
| separation until the end by placing flowers on the ground at the threshold or | J |
| enjoying acts of union that are preserved in her mind These generally are the | A |
| diversions of women when separated from their husbands | O |
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| During the day when she has distractions separation will not torment her so | P |
| much I fear that your friend will have greater suffering at night without | F |
| distraction You who carry my message positioned above the palace roof top | Q |
| see the good woman at midnight lying on the ground sleepless and cheer her | G |
| thoroughly | R |
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| Grown thin with anxiety lying on one side on a bed of separation resembling | L |
| the body of the moon on the eastern horizon when only one sixteenth part | F |
| remains shedding hot tears passing that night lengthened by separation | K |
| which spent in desired enjoyments in company with me would have passed in | M |
| an instant | F |
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| Covering with eyelashes heavy with tears on account of her sorrow her eyes | S |
| which were raised to face the rays of the moon which were cool with nectar | G |
| and which entered by way of the lattice fall again on account of her previous | T |
| love like a bed of land lotuses on an overcast day neither open nor closed | F |
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| She whose sighs that trouble her bud like lower lip will surely be scattering | L |
| the locks of her hair hanging at her cheek dishevelled after a simple bath | U |
| thinking how enjoyment with me might arise even if only in a dream yearning | L |
| for sleep the opportunity for which is prevented by the affliction of tears | V |
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| She who is repeatedly pushing from the curve of her cheek with her hand | F |
| whose nails are unkempt the single braid plaited by me stripped of its | W |
| garland on the first day of our separation which will be loosened by me when | X |
| I am free from sorrow at the expiry of the curse and which is rough to the | A |
| touch stiff and hard | F |
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| That frail woman supporting her tender body which he has laid repeatedly in | M |
| great suffering on a couch will certainly cause even you to shed tears in the | A |
| form of fresh rain Generally all tender hearted beaing have a compassionate | F |
| disposition | K |
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| I know that the mind of your friend is filled with accumulated love for me On | Y |
| account of that I imagine her condition thus at our first separation Even the | A |
| thought of my good fortune does not make me feel like talking All that I have | Z |
| said brother will be before your eyes before long | A2 |
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| I think of the eyes of that deer eyed one the sideways movements of which | B2 |
| are concealed by her hair which are devoid of the glistening of collyrium | C2 |
| which have forgotten the play of their eyebrows on account of abstinence | D2 |
| from sweet liqour and whose upper eyelids tremble when you are near these | D |
| eyes take on the semblance of the beauty of a blue lotus that is trembling with | E2 |
| the movement of a fish | F2 |
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| And her lovely thigh will tremble being without the impressions of my | C2 |
| fingernails caused to abandon it long accustomed string of pearls by the | A |
| course of fate used to the caresses of my hand at the end of our enjoyment | F |
| and as pale as the stem of a beautiful plantain palm | C2 |
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| At that time O cloud if she is enjoying the sleep she has found remaining | L |
| behind her your thunder restrained wait during the night watch Let not the | A |
| knot of her creeper like arms in close embrace with me her beloved somehow | G2 |
| found in a dream fall from my neck at once | D2 |
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| Having woken her with a breeze cooled by your own water droplets she will | H2 |
| be refreshed like the fresh clusters of buds of the malati Your lightning held | F |
| within being firm begin to address her with words of thunder she the proud | F |
| on whose eyes are fixed on the window occupied by you | I |
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| O you who are not a widow know me to be a cloud who is a dear friend of | I2 |
| your husband With messages stored in my heart I have arrived at your side | F |
| and with slow and friendly rumblings I urge along the road a multitude of | I2 |
| weary travellers who are eager to loosen the braids of their womenfolk | L |
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| When this has been said like Sita looking up at Hanuman having beheld you | I |
| with her heart swollen with longing and having honoured you she will listen | K |
| attentively to you further O friend For women news of their beloved that | F |
| brought by a friend is little short of union | K |
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| O long lived one following my instructions and to bring credit to yourself | N |
| address her thus Your partner who resides at the ashram on Ramagiri who is | J2 |
| still alive though separated from you inquires after your news madam This | K2 |
| is the very thing that is first asked by beings who may easily fall into | I |
| misfortune | K |
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| He whose path is blocked by an invidious command and is at a distance by | C2 |
| means of these intentions unites his body with yours the emaciated with the | A |
| emaciated the afflicted with the deeply afflicted that which is wet with tears | V |
| with that which is tearful that whose longing is ceaseless with that which is | J2 |
| longed for that whose sighs are hot with that whose sighs are even more | J |
| numerous | T |
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| He who has become eager to say what is to be said in words in your ear in the | A |
| presence of your female friends with a desire to touch your face he who is | J2 |
| beyond the range of your ears unseen by your eyes addresses these words | L2 |
| composed on account of his desire through the agency of my mouth | M2 |
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| I perceive your body in the priyangu vines your glances in the eyes of the | A |
| startled deer the beauty of your face in the moon your hair in the peacock s | N2 |
| feathers and the play of your eyebrows in the delicate ripples on the river but | F |
| alas your whole likeness is not to be found in a single thing O passionate | F |
| one | K |
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| Having painted your likeness with mineral colours on a rock appearing angry | R |
| because of love as soon as I wish to paint myself fallen at your feet my | C2 |
| vision is clouded again and again with copious tears Cruel fate does not | F |
| permit our union even in this picture | G |
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| Watching me with my arms stretched up into the air for an ardent embrace | O2 |
| when you have somhow been found by me in a vision or in a dream the local | H |
| deities repeatedly shed teardrops as big as pearls on the buds of the trees | D |
| Those winds from the snowy mountains which having broken open the sepals | D |
| of the buds of the devadaru trees become fragrant with their milky sap and | F |
| which blow southwards they are embraced by me O virtuous one with the | A |
| thought that your body might previously have been touched by them | C2 |
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| How can the night with its long watches by compressed into a moment How | G2 |
| may a | A |
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