By The Lake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CADEFGHGI| The old fellow from Shao ling weeps with stifled sobs as he walks furtively by the bends of the Sepentine on a day in spring In | A |
| the waterside palaces the thousands of doors are locked For whom have the willows and rushed put on their fresh greenery | B |
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| I remember how formerly when the Emperor's rainbow banner made its way into the South Park everything in the park | C |
| seemed to bloom with a brighter color The First Lady of the Chao yang Palace rode in the same carriage as her lord in | A |
| attendance at his side while before the carriage rode maids of honor equipped with bows and arrows their white horses | D |
| champing at golden bits Leaning back face skywards they shot into the clouds and the Lady laughed gaily when a bird fell to | E |
| the ground transfixed by a well aimed arrow Where are the bright eyes and the flashing smile now Tainted with | F |
| blood pollution her wandering soul cannot make its way back The clear waters of the Wei flow eastwards and Chien ko is | G |
| far away between the one who has gone and the one who remains no communication is possible It is human to have feelings | H |
| and shed tears for such things but the grasses and flowers of the lakeside go on for ever unmoved As evening falls the city is | G |
| full of the dust of foreign horseman My way is towards the South City but my gaze turns northward | I |
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