Buddha At Kamakura Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BBBA CCCA DDDA EECA BBBA BBBA FBFA GGBA HHHA BBBA BBBA| Oye who treated the Narrow Way | A |
| By Tophet flare to Judgment Day | A |
| Be gentle when quot the heathen quot pray | A |
| To Buddha at Kamakura | A |
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| To him the Way the Law apart | B |
| Whom Maya held beneath her heart | B |
| Ananda's Lord the Bodhisat | B |
| The Buddha of Kamakura | A |
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| For though he neither burns nor sees | C |
| Nor hears ye thank your Deities | C |
| Ye have not sinned with such as these | C |
| His children at Kamakura | A |
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| Yet spare us still the Western joke | D |
| When joss sticks turn to scented smoke | D |
| The little sins of little folk | D |
| That worship at Kamakura | A |
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| The grey robed gay sashed butterflies | E |
| That flit beneath the Master's eyes | E |
| He is beyond the Mysteries | C |
| But loves them at Kamakura | A |
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| And whoso will from Pride released | B |
| Contemning neither creed nor priest | B |
| May feel the Soul of all the East | B |
| About him at Kamakura | A |
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| Yea every tale Ananda heard | B |
| Of birth as fish or beast or bird | B |
| While yet in lives the Master stirred | B |
| The warm wind brings Kamakura | A |
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| Till drowsy eyelids seem to see | F |
| A flower 'neath her golden htee | B |
| The Shwe Dagon flare easterly | F |
| From Burmah to Kamakura | A |
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| And down the loaded air there comes | G |
| The thunder of Thibetan drums | G |
| And droned quot Om mane padme hums quot | B |
| A world's width from Kamakura | A |
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| Yet Brahmans rule Benares still | H |
| Buddh Gaya's ruins pit the hill | H |
| And beef fed zealots threaten ill | H |
| To Buddha and Kamakura | A |
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| A tourist show a legend told | B |
| A rusting bulk of bronze and gold | B |
| So much and scarce so much ye hold | B |
| The meaning of Kamakura | A |
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| But when the morning prayer is prayed | B |
| Think ere ye pass to strife and trade | B |
| Is God in human image made | B |
| No nearer than Kamakura | A |
Rudyard Kipling
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