Friends In Misfortune Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF FF GG H HH II HH GG H JJ HH K HH HH GG FF K HH FF HH L| Long and loud lamented Rama by his lonesome cottage door | A |
| Janasthana's woodlands answered Panchavati's echoing shore | A |
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| Long he searched in wood and jungle mountain crest and pathless plain | B |
| Till he reached the Malya mountains stretching to the southern main | B |
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| There Sugriva king of Vanars Hanuman his henchman brave | C |
| Banished from their home and empire lived within the forest cave | C |
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| To the exiled king Sugriva Hanuman his purpose told | D |
| As he marked the pensive Rama wand'ring with his brother bold | D |
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| 'Mark the sons of Dasa ratha banished from their royal home | E |
| Duteous to their father's mandate in these pathless forests roam | E |
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| Great was monarch Dasa ratha famed for sacrifice divine | F |
| Raja suya Aswa medha and for gift of gold and kine | F |
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| By a monarch's stainless duty people's love the monarch won | F |
| By a woman's false contrivance banished he his eldest son | F |
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| True to duty true to virtue Rama passed his forest life | G |
| Till a false perfidious Raksha stole his fair and faithful wife | G |
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| And the anguish stricken husband seeks thy friendship and thy aid | H |
| Mutual sorrow blends your fortunes be ye friends in mutual need ' | - |
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| Bold Sugriva heard the counsel and to righteous Rama hied | H |
| And the princes of Ayodhya with his greetings gratified | H |
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| 'Well I know thee righteous Rama soul of piety and love | I |
| And thy duty to thy father and thy faith in God above | I |
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| Fortune favours poor Sugriva Rama courts his humble aid | H |
| In our deepest direst danger he our truest friendship made | H |
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| Equal is our fateful fortune I have lost a queenly wife | G |
| Banished from Kishkindha's empire here I lead a forest life | G |
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| Pledge of love and true alliance Rama take this proffered hand | H |
| Banded by a common sorrow we shall fall or stoutly stand ' | - |
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| Rama grasped the hand lie offered and the tear was in his eye | J |
| And they swore undying friendship o'er the altar blazing high | J |
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| Hanuman with fragrant blossoms sanctified the sacred rite | H |
| And the comrades linked by sorrow walked around the altar's light | H |
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| And their word and troth they plighted 'In our happiness and woe | K |
| We are friends in thought and action we will f ace our common foe ' | - |
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| And they broke a leafy Sal tree spread it underneath their feet | H |
| Rama and his friend Sugriva sat upon the common seat | H |
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| And a branch of scented Chandan with its tender blossoms graced | H |
| Hanuman as seat of honour for the faithful Lakshman placed | H |
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| 'Listen Rama ' spake Sugriva 'reft of kingdom reft of wife | G |
| Fleeing to these rugged mountains I endure a forest life | G |
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| For my tyrant brother Bali rules Kishkindha all alone | F |
| Forced my wife from my embraces drove me from my father's throne | F |
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| Trembling in my fear and anguish I endure a life of woe | K |
| Render me my wife and empire from my brother and my foe ' | - |
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| 'Not in vain they seek my succour ' so the gallant Rama said | H |
| 'Who with love and offered friendship seek my counsel and my aid | H |
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| Not in vain these glistening arrows in my ample quiver shine | F |
| Bali dies the death of tyrants wife and empire shall be thine | F |
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| Quick as INDRA'S fork d lightning are these arrows feather plumed | H |
| Deadly as the hissing serpent are these darts with points illumed | H |
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| And this day shall not be ended ere it sees thy brotherfall | L |
| As by lurid lightning severed sinks the crest of mountain tall ' | - |
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