Shivratri (the Night Of Shiva) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGF HADAIJKJ LMNMOPQP RSTSFUVU| While the procession passed at Ramesram | A |
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| Nearer and nearer cometh the car | B |
| Where the Golden Goddess towers | C |
| Sweeter and sweeter grows the air | D |
| From a thousand trampled flowers | C |
| We two rest in the Temple shade | E |
| Safe from the pilgrim flood | F |
| This path of the Gods in olden days | G |
| Ran royally red with blood | F |
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| Louder and louder and louder yet | H |
| Throbs the sorrowful drum | A |
| That is the tortured world's despair | D |
| Never a moment dumb | A |
| Shriller and shriller shriek the flutes | I |
| Nature's passionate need | J |
| Paler and paler grow my lips | K |
| And still thou bid'st them bleed | J |
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| Deeper and deeper and deeper still | L |
| Never a pause for pain | M |
| Darker and darker falls the night | N |
| That golden torches stain | M |
| Closer ah closer and still more close | O |
| Till thy soul reach my soul | P |
| Further further out on the tide | Q |
| From the shores of self control | P |
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| Glowing glowing to whitest heat | R |
| Thy feverish passions burn | S |
| Fiercer and fiercer cruelly fierce | T |
| To thee my senses yearn | S |
| Fainter and fainter runs my blood | F |
| With desperate fight for breath | U |
| This my Beloved thou sayest is Love | V |
| Or I should have deemed it Death | U |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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