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 cried | A |
'Wherefore to this jungle dwelling hast thou from Ayodhya hied | A |
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Speak my fond and loving brother if our father bade thee come | B |
Leaving throne and spacious empire in this wilderness to roam | C |
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Heir and Regent of Kosala Dost thou tend our father well | D |
And obey the lofty mandate from his royal lips that fell | D |
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And the ancient Dasa ratha glorious still in regal might | A |
Doth he pass his bright life's evening in each pure and holy rite | A |
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Doth my mother Queen Kausalya still for Rama wet her eye | E |
And the gentle Queen Sumitra for her banished Lakshman sigh | E |
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Doth the peerless Queen Kaikeyi pass her days in duties fair | F |
Guard her Bharat's mighty empire tend him with a mother's care | F |
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Is each holy rite and homage to the Gods and Fathers done | G |
Is the honour due to elders rendered by each duteous son | G |
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Do thy warriors guard thy kingdom as of yore with matchless skill | H |
And with counsel deep and duteous do thy min'sters serve thy will | H |
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Rich thy fields in corn and produce fed by rivers broad and deep | I |
Rich thy green unending pastures with the kine and fattened sheep | I |
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Tend the herdsman and his cattle tend the tiller of the soil | J |
Watch and help with all thy bounty workmen in their peaceful toil | J |
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For the monarch's highest duty is to serve his people's weal | J |
And the ruler's richest glory is to labour and to heal | J |
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Guard thy forts with sleepless caution with the engines of the war | K |
With the men who shoot the arrow and who drive the flying car | L |
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Guard Kosala's royal treasure make thy gifts of wealth and food | A |
Not to lords and proud retainers but to worthy and the good | A |
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Reader justice pure and spotless as befits thy royal line | M |
And to save the good and guiltless Bharat be it ever thine | M |
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For the tears of suffering virtue wither like the thunder levin | N |
And they slay our men and cattle like the wrath of righteous heaven | G |
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Fruitful be thy lore of Veda fruitful be each pious rite | A |
Be thy queen a fruitful mother be thy empire full of might ' | - |
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Weeping weeping Bharat answered Dasa ratha's eldest son | G |
'Dasa ratha walks the bright sky for his earthly task is done | G |
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For impelled by Queen Kaikeyi to the woods he bade thee go | O |
And his spotless fame was clouded and his bosom sank in woe | O |
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And my mother late repenting weeps her deed of deepest shame | P |
Weeps her wedded lord departed and a woman's tarnished fame | P |
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Thou alone canst wipe this insult by a deed of kindness done | G |
Rule o'er Dasa ratha's empire Dasa ratha's eldest son | G |
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Weeping queens and loyal subjects supplicate thy noble grace | Q |
Rule o'er Raghu's ancient empire son of Raghu's royal race | Q |
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For our ancient Law ordaineth and thy Duty makes it plain | R |
Eldest born succeeds his father as the king of earth and main | R |
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By the fair Earth loved and welcomed Rama be her wedded lord | A |
As by planet jewelled Midnight is the radiant Moon adored | A |
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And thy father's ancient min'sters and thy courtiers faithful still | J |
Wait to do thy righteous mandate and to serve thy royal will | J |
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As a pupil as a brother as a slave I seek thy grace | Q |
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 head | A |
Weeping for his sire departed tears of sorrow Rama shed | A |
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Then he raised his loving brother with an elder's deathless love | S |
Sorrow wakes our deepest kindness and our holiest feelings prove | T |
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'But I may not ' answered Rama 'seek Ayodhya's ancient throne | U |
For a righteous father's mandate duteous son may not disown | U |
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And I may not gentle brother break the word of promise given | G |
To a king and to a father who is now a saint in heaven | G |
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Not on thee nor on thy mother rests the censure or the blame | P |
Faithful to his father's wishes Rama to the forest came | P |
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For the son and duteous consort serve the father and the lord | A |
Higher than an empire's glory is a father's spoken word | A |
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All inviolate is his mandate on Ayodhya's jewelled throne | U |
Or in pathless woods and jungle Rama shall his duty own | U |
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All inviolate is the blessing by a loving mother given | G |
For she blessed my life in exile like a pitying saint of heaven | G |
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Thou shalt rule the kingdom Bharat guard our loving people well | J |
Clad in wild bark and in deer skin I shall in the forests dwell | J |
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So spake saintly Dasa ratha in Ayodhya's palace hall | J |
And a righteous father's mandate duteous son may not recall ' | - |
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