Extreme Orient Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGAHACICBJACCAK LCCMNCOPQRSTSCANCCUA CCAAVUWBCNCBCACUBBCX SCBUNCACCNCYSSVZA2SV B2CC2SD2CCSE2CABCDSS CAHAA barge adrift the Perfumed River | A |
reclining beneath a parasol | B |
is the courtesan Tigress waving her fan | C |
barge floats past village and pagoda | D |
houses and huts midst bodhi tree | E |
coconut palm flame flowers | F |
bamboo forest and flat green | G |
leaves float in the green river | A |
tangle roots and mangrove | H |
In the morning she bathed in the river | A |
Her black lacquer fan | C |
a butterfly's deep blue wings | I |
unfold a painting of a courtesan | C |
poised beneath her parasol | B |
keeping the rain off | J |
a barge adrift the Perfumed River | A |
The woman of the painting on the fan | C |
fanning herself reposing on her divan | C |
rocked by the river's rice green water | A |
The farmers move water in the fields | K |
harvest love songs | L |
to give the famous courtesan | C |
who sees them with affection | C |
now she has her letters to attend | M |
the afternoon for reading and to practise English | N |
The rice rivers rock gently her divan | C |
Below deck is red silk and velvet bed | O |
a glass case shelving bottles of shampoo | P |
from every country freshly folded towels | Q |
calendars signed by football stars | R |
grace the chamber's walls | S |
and glowing with river's love | T |
her very odalisqueness | S |
she can sing the radio love tune | C |
like a goddess as strong as any warrior | A |
lay serenely the river's quiet raindrop plash | N |
the same scene painted on her black lacquer fan | C |
as the fan she is painted on | C |
a courtesan beneath parasol reclining on a barge | U |
rocked by the gentle river | A |
She sees pirates from the ocean | C |
come up the river in the eyes of business men | C |
they sing from the banks of the Perfumed River | A |
she is the one the tigers regard and carp swim after | A |
her fan unfolds a silvery painting | V |
of a lady with a fan who from her barge | U |
watches farmers work the land | W |
It is hot and they toil | B |
all morning buffalo with moon | C |
horns take a bath in mud she | N |
watches them from her divan | C |
the farmers and the buffalo | B |
she lets fall her fan | C |
and painted on it is the picture | A |
a woman holding a fan | C |
seated pleasingly on a barge | U |
the rain falling harder on her parasol | B |
and the river starting to flow | B |
attending her letters she will read in the afternoon | C |
and watch on the land the eternity farmers dream | X |
her fan like a butterfly spreads its wings | S |
to reveal a courtesan who lets fall her fan | C |
it keeps going fan after fan a deep blue butterfly | B |
unfolding the painted scene on the river a barge | U |
where shaded by a parasol is the lady | N |
watching the same lovelorn men | C |
harvest rice songs the fan opens another | A |
and another fans within fans until the fan | C |
where in the picture above the courtesan | C |
and the painted scenery | N |
right up in the sky an old spirit man | C |
rides the clouds in a bathtub | Y |
and plays a harp sparking thunderbolts | S |
a mischievous being powerful in the hands | S |
of a courtesan twangs the lightning | V |
as he steps cloud to cloud | Z |
painted on the next fan up | A2 |
all the way up up through black lacquered fans | S |
one after another opening | V |
fans growing as they approach the world | B2 |
of the lady on her barge on the gently rocked divan | C |
When he meets her the sky blacks out | C2 |
he is a cruel storm Pray Mercy | S |
bless us with goddess tears on the Perfumed | D2 |
River hold back your blessed typhoon | C |
The courtesan snaps shut her fan | C |
swarms of deep blue butterflies and black moths | S |
are drawn to her light | E2 |
the river waves rock gently her divan | C |
A barge adrift the Perfumed River | A |
reclining beneath a parasol | B |
is the courtesan Tigress and her fan | C |
barge floats by village and pagoda | D |
houses and huts saluted by bodhi tree | S |
coconut palm flame flowers | S |
bamboo forest and flat green | C |
leaves float in the green river | A |
tangle roots and mangrove | H |
In the morning she bathed in the river | A |
S. K. Kelen
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