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 G2AThe 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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