A Song Of Changgan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKLMN OIPQRSTUVWNX YAZA2My hair had hardly covered my forehead | A |
I was picking flowers paying by my door | B |
When you my lover on a bamboo horse | C |
Came trotting in circles and throwing green plums | D |
We lived near together on a lane in Ch'ang kan | E |
Both of us young and happy hearted | F |
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At fourteen I became your wife | G |
So bashful that I dared not smile | H |
And I lowered my head toward a dark corner | I |
And would not turn to your thousand calls | J |
But at fifteen I straightened my brows and laughed | K |
Learning that no dust could ever seal our love | L |
That even unto death I would await you by my post | M |
And would never lose heart in the tower of silent watching | N |
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Then when I was sixteen you left on a long journey | O |
Through the Gorges of Ch'u t'ang of rock and whirling water | I |
And then came the Fifth month more than I could bear | P |
And I tried to hear the monkeys in your lofty far off sky | Q |
Your footprints by our door where I had watched you go | R |
Were hidden every one of them under green moss | S |
Hidden under moss too deep to sweep away | T |
And the first autumn wind added fallen leaves | U |
And now in the Eighth month yellowing butterflies | V |
Hover two by two in our west garden grasses | W |
And because of all this my heart is breaking | N |
And I fear for my bright cheeks lest they fade | X |
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Oh at last when you return through the three Pa districts | Y |
Send me a message home ahead | A |
And I will come and meet you and will never mind the distance | Z |
All the way to Chang feng Sha | A2 |
Li Po
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