The Royal Tombs Of Golconda Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB AAAA CDED FGFG HIHI JAJAI MUSE among these silent fanes | A |
Whose spacious darkness guards your dust | B |
Around me sleep the hoary plains | A |
That hold your ancient wars in trust | B |
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I pause my dreaming spirit hears | A |
Across the wind's unquiet tides | A |
The glimmering music of your spears | A |
The laughter of your royal brides | A |
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In vain O Kings doth time aspire | C |
To make your names oblivion's sport | D |
While yonder hill wears like a tier | E |
The ruined grandeur of your fort | D |
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Though centuries falter and decline | F |
Your proven strongholds shall remain | G |
Embodied memories of your line | F |
Incarnate legends of your reign | G |
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O Queens in vain old Fate decreed | H |
Your flower like bodies to the tomb | I |
Death is in truth the vital seed | H |
Of your imperishable bloom | I |
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Each new born year the bulbuls sing | J |
Their songs of your renascent loves | A |
Your beauty wakens with the spring | J |
To kindle these pomegranate groves | A |
Sarojini Naidu
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