A Song Of Changgan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKLMN OIPQRSTUVWNX YAZA2| My 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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