To A Buddha Seated On A Lotus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFGG HIHIJA KLKLMM NONCAA| LORD BUDDHA on thy Lotus throne | A |
| With praying eyes and hands elate | B |
| What mystic rapture dost thou own | A |
| Immutable and ultimate | C |
| What peace unravished of our ken | D |
| Annihilate from the world of men | D |
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| The wind of change for ever blows | E |
| Across the tumult of our way | F |
| To morrow's unborn griefs depose | E |
| The sorrows of our yesterday | F |
| Dream yields to dream strife follows strife | G |
| And Death unweaves the webs of Life | G |
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| For us the travail and the heat | H |
| The broken secrets of our pride | I |
| The strenuous lessons of defeat | H |
| The flower deferred the fruit denied | I |
| But not the peace supremely won | J |
| Lord Buddha of thy Lotus throne | A |
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| With futile hands we seek to gain | K |
| Our inaccessible desire | L |
| Diviner summits to attain | K |
| With faith that sinks and feet that tire | L |
| But nought shall conquer or control | M |
| The heavenward hunger of our soul | M |
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| The end elusive and afar | N |
| Still lures us with its beckoning flight | O |
| And all our mortal moments are | N |
| A session of the Infinite | C |
| How shall we reach the great unknown | A |
| Nirvana of thy Lotus throne | A |
Sarojini Naidu
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