Corn Grinders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCCBDDB EE BF FBGGB HH BIJBKKB| O little mouse why dost thou cry | A |
| While merry stars laugh in the sky | A |
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| Alas alas my lord is dead | B |
| Ah who will ease my bitter pain | C |
| He went to seek a millet grain | C |
| In the rich farmer's granary shed | B |
| They caught him in a baited snare | D |
| And slew my lover unaware | D |
| Alas alas my lord is dead | B |
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| O little deer why dost thou moan | E |
| Hid in thy forest bower alone | E |
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| Alas alas my lord is dead | B |
| Ah who will quiet my lament | F |
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| At fall of eventide he went | F |
| To drink beside the river head | B |
| A waiting hunter threw his dart | G |
| And struck my lover through the heart | G |
| Alas alas my lord is dead | B |
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| O little bride why dost thou weep | H |
| With all the happy world asleep | H |
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| Alas alas my lord is dead | B |
| Ah who will stay these hungry tears | I |
| Or still the want of famished years | J |
| And crown with love my marriage bed | B |
| My soul burns with the quenchless fire | K |
| That lit my lover's funeral pyre | K |
| Alas alas my lord is dead | B |
Sarojini Naidu
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