Crossing The Tamasa: The Citizens' Return Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CC DE FF GH II JJ JJ KK LL II J MM JJ JJ JJ II JJ NN JJ H JJ MM JJ JJ J JJ NN MM JJ| Evening's thickening shades descended on Tamasa's distant shore | A |
| Rama rested by the river day of toilsome journey o'er | B |
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| And Ayodhya's loving people by the limpid river lay | C |
| Sad and sorrowing they had followed Rama's chariot through the day | C |
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| 'Soft eyed Sita faithful Lakshman ' thus the gentle Rama said | D |
| 'Hail the first night of our exile mantling us in welcome shade | E |
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| Weeps the lone and voiceless forest and in darksome lair and nest | F |
| Feathered bird and forest creature seek their midnight's wonted rest | F |
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| Weeps methinks our fair Ayodhya to her Rama ever dear | G |
| And perchance her men and women shed for us a silent tear | H |
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| Loyal men and faithful women they have loved their ancient king | I |
| And his anguish and our exile will their gentle bosoms wring | I |
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| Most I sorrow for my father and my mother loved and lost | J |
| Stricken by untimely anguish by a cruel fortune crost | J |
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| But the good and righteous Bharat gently will my parents tend | J |
| And with fond and filial duty tender consolation lend | J |
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| Well I know his stainless bosom and his virtues rare and high | K |
| He will soothe our parents' sorrow and their trickling tear will dry | K |
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| Faithful Lakshman thou hast nobly stood by us when sorrows fell | L |
| Guard my Sits by thy valour by thy virtues tend her well | L |
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| Wait on her while from this river Rama seeks his thirst to slake | I |
| On this first night of his exile food nor fruit shall Rama take | I |
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| Thou Sumantra tend the horses darkness comes with close of day | J |
| Weary was the endless journey weary is our onward way ' | - |
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| Store of grass and welcome fodder to the steeds the driver gave | M |
| Gave them rest and gave them water from Tamasa's limpid wave | M |
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| And performing night's devotions for the princes made their bed | J |
| By the softly rippling river 'neath the tree's umbrageous shade | J |
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| On a bed of leaf and verdure Rama and his Sita slept | J |
| Faithful Lakshman with Sumantra nightly watch and vigils kept | J |
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| And the stars their silent lustre on the weary exiles shed | J |
| And on wood and rolling river night her darksome mantle spread | J |
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| Early woke the righteous Rama and to watchful Lakshman spake | I |
| Mark the slumb'ring city people still their nightly rest they take | I |
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| They have left their homes and children followed us with loyal heart | J |
| They would take us to Ayodhya from their princes loth to part | J |
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| Speed my brother for the people wake not till the morning's star | N |
| Speed by night the silent chariot we may travel fast and far | N |
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| So my true and loving people see us not by dawn of day | J |
| Follow not through wood and jungle Rama in his onward way | J |
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| For a monarch meek in suffering should his burden bravely bear | H |
| And his true and faithful people may not ask his woe to share ' | - |
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| Lakshman heard the gentle mandate and Sumantra yoked the steed | J |
| Fresh with rest and grateful fodder matchless in their wondrous speed | J |
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| Rama with his gentle consort and with Lakshman true and brave | M |
| Crossed beneath the silent starlight dark Tamasa's limpid wave | M |
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| On the farther bank a pathway fair to view and far and wide | J |
| Stretching onwards to the forests spanned the spacious country side | J |
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| 'Leave the broad and open pathway ' so the gentle Rama said | J |
| 'Follow yet a track diverging so the people be misled | J |
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| Then returning to the pathway we shall march ere break of day | J |
| So our true and faithful people shall not know our southward way ' | - |
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| Wise Sumantra hastened northward then returning to the road | J |
| By his master and his consort and the valiant Lakshman stood | J |
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| Raghu's sons and gentle Sita mounted on the stately car | N |
| And Sumantra drove the coursers travelling fast and travelling far | N |
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| Morning dawned the waking people by Tamasa's limpid wave | M |
| Saw not Rama and his consort saw not Lakshman young and brave | M |
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| And the tear suffused their faces and their hearts with anguish burned | J |
| Sorrow laden and lamenting to their cheerless homes returned | J |
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