A Song Of Changgan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKLMN OIPQRSTUVWNX YAZA2

My hair had hardly covered my foreheadA
I was picking flowers paying by my doorB
When you my lover on a bamboo horseC
Came trotting in circles and throwing green plumsD
We lived near together on a lane in Ch'ang kanE
Both of us young and happy heartedF
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At fourteen I became your wifeG
So bashful that I dared not smileH
And I lowered my head toward a dark cornerI
And would not turn to your thousand callsJ
But at fifteen I straightened my brows and laughedK
Learning that no dust could ever seal our loveL
That even unto death I would await you by my postM
And would never lose heart in the tower of silent watchingN
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Then when I was sixteen you left on a long journeyO
Through the Gorges of Ch'u t'ang of rock and whirling waterI
And then came the Fifth month more than I could bearP
And I tried to hear the monkeys in your lofty far off skyQ
Your footprints by our door where I had watched you goR
Were hidden every one of them under green mossS
Hidden under moss too deep to sweep awayT
And the first autumn wind added fallen leavesU
And now in the Eighth month yellowing butterfliesV
Hover two by two in our west garden grassesW
And because of all this my heart is breakingN
And I fear for my bright cheeks lest they fadeX
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Oh at last when you return through the three Pa districtsY
Send me a message home aheadA
And I will come and meet you and will never mind the distanceZ
All the way to Chang feng ShaA2

Li Po



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