The Rice Was Under Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB| The Rice was under water and the land was scourged with rain | A |
| The nights were desolation and the day was born in pain | A |
| Ah the famine and the fever and the cruel swollen streams | B |
| I had died except for Krishna who consoled me in my dreams | B |
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| The Burning Ghats were smoking and the jewels melted down | C |
| The Temples lay deserted for the people left the town | C |
| Yet I was more than happy though passing strange it seems | B |
| For I spent my nights with Krishna who loved me in my dreams | B |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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