The Exile-s Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGDGH IJGKLLMDIMDNOIKPGQLR KDSDTMDUMEVWXEYMZA2B 2 C2D2CE2MMDF2G2| To Y an | A |
| Remember how Tung built us a place to drink in | B |
| At Lo yang south of the T ien ching bridge | C |
| White jade and gold bought songs and laughter | D |
| We drank forgetting Court and princes | E |
| Those amongst us wisest and bravest | F |
| On all this side of rivers and oceans | G |
| Hearts high as clouds and you and I together | D |
| Cared nothing at crossing lakes and mountains | G |
| Only to share our thoughts and feelings | H |
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| Then I went out south east to cut the laurel | I |
| You north of Lo River still lost in dreams | J |
| No joy in being parted Soon back again in mountains | G |
| Tracking the thirty six twists and turns of valley | K |
| By the streams bright with a thousand flowers | L |
| By endless waters | L |
| Hearing pine trees sighing | M |
| Till we met the Hang tung Governor | D |
| On a gold and silver saddle | I |
| And Hu the True Taoist drew us with his pipe playing | M |
| Making unearthly music out of the high tower | D |
| Strange sounds of the mating phoenix | N |
| The Governor s sleeves kept time to the music | O |
| So that he rose drunk and danced a little | I |
| Brought his brocade coat covered my body | K |
| I fell asleep head resting in his lap | P |
| By day our hearts rose to the nine heavens | G |
| At evening we scattered like blown stars or rain | Q |
| I to my far mountain over hills and waters | L |
| You to your own house by the bridge of Wei | R |
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| That winter I made your father s North City | K |
| Loved you for the way you did me honour | D |
| Sharing your wealth thinking nothing of it | S |
| Wine there in cups of amber | D |
| Food there on plates of jade | T |
| I ate and drank no thoughts of returning | M |
| We went out to the west The river parts there | D |
| Round the ancient shrine of a Prince of Chou | U |
| Boats on the waters to drums and piping | M |
| Waves made of dragon scales Jade green rushes | E |
| We drank and drank lived the passing moments | V |
| Forgetting how they go like blossoms or snowfall | W |
| Flushed with wine warm in glow of sunset | X |
| The hundred foot deep pool mirroring bright faces | E |
| Dancing girls delicate as willows in the moonlight | Y |
| Notes lost in the silken sleeves fluttering | M |
| A white breeze blew their song to the sky | Z |
| Winding through the air twisting in the cloud lanes | A2 |
| Never again Never again such joy | B2 |
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| I went west but got no promotion | C2 |
| White headed back to eastern hills | D2 |
| Met once more south of Wei s bridge | C |
| Parted again north of Tso s terrace | E2 |
| And if you ask my feelings at parting | M |
| They were inside me like Spring flowers falling | M |
| No way to say what s in the heart Never | D |
| I call in the boy Have him kneel here tie this | F2 |
| To send my feelings through a thousand miles | G2 |
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