Bharat's Entreaty And Rama's Reply Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DD AA EE FF GG HH II JJ JJ KL AA MM NG A GG OO PP GG QQ RR AA JJ Q AA ST UU GG PP AA UU GG JJ J

'Speak my true my faithful Bharat ' so the righteous Rama criedA
'Wherefore to this jungle dwelling hast thou from Ayodhya hiedA
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Speak my fond and loving brother if our father bade thee comeB
Leaving throne and spacious empire in this wilderness to roamC
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Heir and Regent of Kosala Dost thou tend our father wellD
And obey the lofty mandate from his royal lips that fellD
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And the ancient Dasa ratha glorious still in regal mightA
Doth he pass his bright life's evening in each pure and holy riteA
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Doth my mother Queen Kausalya still for Rama wet her eyeE
And the gentle Queen Sumitra for her banished Lakshman sighE
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Doth the peerless Queen Kaikeyi pass her days in duties fairF
Guard her Bharat's mighty empire tend him with a mother's careF
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Is each holy rite and homage to the Gods and Fathers doneG
Is the honour due to elders rendered by each duteous sonG
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Do thy warriors guard thy kingdom as of yore with matchless skillH
And with counsel deep and duteous do thy min'sters serve thy willH
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Rich thy fields in corn and produce fed by rivers broad and deepI
Rich thy green unending pastures with the kine and fattened sheepI
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Tend the herdsman and his cattle tend the tiller of the soilJ
Watch and help with all thy bounty workmen in their peaceful toilJ
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For the monarch's highest duty is to serve his people's wealJ
And the ruler's richest glory is to labour and to healJ
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Guard thy forts with sleepless caution with the engines of the warK
With the men who shoot the arrow and who drive the flying carL
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Guard Kosala's royal treasure make thy gifts of wealth and foodA
Not to lords and proud retainers but to worthy and the goodA
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Reader justice pure and spotless as befits thy royal lineM
And to save the good and guiltless Bharat be it ever thineM
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For the tears of suffering virtue wither like the thunder levinN
And they slay our men and cattle like the wrath of righteous heavenG
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Fruitful be thy lore of Veda fruitful be each pious riteA
Be thy queen a fruitful mother be thy empire full of might '-
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Weeping weeping Bharat answered Dasa ratha's eldest sonG
'Dasa ratha walks the bright sky for his earthly task is doneG
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For impelled by Queen Kaikeyi to the woods he bade thee goO
And his spotless fame was clouded and his bosom sank in woeO
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And my mother late repenting weeps her deed of deepest shameP
Weeps her wedded lord departed and a woman's tarnished fameP
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Thou alone canst wipe this insult by a deed of kindness doneG
Rule o'er Dasa ratha's empire Dasa ratha's eldest sonG
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Weeping queens and loyal subjects supplicate thy noble graceQ
Rule o'er Raghu's ancient empire son of Raghu's royal raceQ
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For our ancient Law ordaineth and thy Duty makes it plainR
Eldest born succeeds his father as the king of earth and mainR
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By the fair Earth loved and welcomed Rama be her wedded lordA
As by planet jewelled Midnight is the radiant Moon adoredA
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And thy father's ancient min'sters and thy courtiers faithful stillJ
Wait to do thy righteous mandate and to serve thy royal willJ
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As a pupil as a brother as a slave I seek thy graceQ
Come and rule thy father's empire king of Raghu's royal race '-
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Weeping on the feet of Rama Bharat placed his lowly headA
Weeping for his sire departed tears of sorrow Rama shedA
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Then he raised his loving brother with an elder's deathless loveS
Sorrow wakes our deepest kindness and our holiest feelings proveT
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'But I may not ' answered Rama 'seek Ayodhya's ancient throneU
For a righteous father's mandate duteous son may not disownU
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And I may not gentle brother break the word of promise givenG
To a king and to a father who is now a saint in heavenG
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Not on thee nor on thy mother rests the censure or the blameP
Faithful to his father's wishes Rama to the forest cameP
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For the son and duteous consort serve the father and the lordA
Higher than an empire's glory is a father's spoken wordA
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All inviolate is his mandate on Ayodhya's jewelled throneU
Or in pathless woods and jungle Rama shall his duty ownU
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All inviolate is the blessing by a loving mother givenG
For she blessed my life in exile like a pitying saint of heavenG
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Thou shalt rule the kingdom Bharat guard our loving people wellJ
Clad in wild bark and in deer skin I shall in the forests dwellJ
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So spake saintly Dasa ratha in Ayodhya's palace hallJ
And a righteous father's mandate duteous son may not recall '-

Valmiki



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