Hopeless! Despairless! Like That Indian Wise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCCDCCDEF| Hopeless Despairless like that Indian wise | A |
| Free of desire save no desire to know | B |
| To gain that sweet Nirvana each one tries | A |
| Thinks to assuage soul wearing passion so | B |
| From the white rest the ante natal bliss | C |
| Not loth the wondrous wondering soul awakes | C |
| Now drawn to that illusion now to this | C |
| With gathering strength each devious pathway takes | C |
| Till at the noon of life his aims decline | D |
| Evermore earthward bend the tiring eyes | C |
| Evermore earthward till with no surprise | C |
| They see Nirvana from Earth's bosom shine | D |
| The still kind mother holds her child again | E |
| In blank desirelessness without a stain | F |
Thomas Runciman
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