The River-captain-s Wife - A Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJ FGKL MNOP QCRS TUVW CGCP| I with my hair in its first fringe | A |
| Romped outside breaking flower heads | B |
| You galloped by on bamboo horses | C |
| We juggled green plums round the well | D |
| Living in Chang kan village | E |
| Two small people without guile | F |
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| At fourteen I married you sir | G |
| So bashful I could only hide | H |
| My frowning face turned to the wall | I |
| Called after never looking back | J |
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| Fifteen before I learnt to smile | F |
| Yearned to be one with you forever | G |
| You to be the Ever Faithful | K |
| I to not sit lonely waiting | L |
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| At sixteen you sir went away | M |
| Through White King s Gorge by Yen Rock s rapids | N |
| When the Yangtze s at its highest | O |
| Where the gibbons cried above you | P |
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| Here by the door your last footprints | Q |
| Slowly growing green mosses | C |
| So deep I cannot sweep them | R |
| Leaves so thick from winds of autumn | S |
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| September s yellow butterflies | T |
| Twine together in our west garden | U |
| What I feel it hurts the heart | V |
| Sadness makes my beauty vanish | W |
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| When you come down from far places | C |
| Please will you write me a letter | G |
| As far as the farthest reaches | C |
| I ll come out to welcome you | P |
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