Lover's Gifts Xxii: I Shall Gladly Suffer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBDEFGHIGJKLGBMNF OIGP| I shall gladly suffer the pride of culture to die out in my house | A |
| if only in some happy future I am born a herd boy in the Brinda | B |
| forest | B |
| The herd boy who grazes his cattle sitting under the banyan | C |
| tree and idly weaves gunja flowers into garlands who loves to | B |
| splash and plunge in the Jamuna's cool deep stream | D |
| He calls his companions to wake up when morning dawns and all | E |
| the houses in the lane hum with the sound of the churn clouds of | F |
| dust are raised by the cattle the maidens come out in the | G |
| courtyard to milk the king | H |
| As the shadows deepen under the tomal trees and the dusk | I |
| gathers on the river banks when the milkmaids while crossing the | G |
| turbulent water tremble with fear and loud peacocks with tails | J |
| outspread dance in the forest he watchers the summer clouds | K |
| When the April night is sweet as a fresh blown flower he | L |
| disappears in the forest with a peacock's plume in his hair the | G |
| swing ropes are twined with flowers on the branches the south wind | B |
| throbs with music and the merry shepherd boys crowd on the banks | M |
| of the blue river | N |
| No I will never be the leader brothers of this new age of | F |
| new Bengal I shall not trouble to light the lamp of culture for | O |
| the benighted If only I could be born under the shady asoka | I |
| groves in some village of Brinda where milk is churned by the | G |
| maidens | P |
Rabindranath Tagore
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