Indrajit's First Battle-the Serpent-noose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FG HH CC GF II CJ DD KK HH BB BB II BB EE BB| Darkly round the leaguered city Rama's countless forces lay | A |
| Far as Ravan cast his glances in the dawning light of day | A |
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| Wrath and anguish shook his bosom and the gates he opened wide | B |
| And with ranks of charging Rakshas sallied with a Raksha's pride | B |
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| All the day the battle lasted endless were the tale to tell | C |
| What unnumbered Vanars perished and what countless Rakshas fell | C |
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| Darkness came the fiery foemen urged the still unceasing fight | D |
| Struggling with a deathless hatred fiercer in the gloom of night | D |
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| Onward came resistless Rakshas laid Sugriva's forces low | E |
| Crushed the broken ranks of Vanars drank the red blood of the foe | E |
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| Bravely fought the scattered Vanars facing still the tide of war | F |
| Struggling with the charging tusker and the steed and battle car | G |
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| Till at last the gallant Lakshman and the godlike Rama came | H |
| And they swept the hosts of Ravan like a sweeping forest flame | H |
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| And their shafts like hissing serpents on the falt'ring foemen fell | C |
| Fiercer grew the sable midnight with the dying shriek and yell | C |
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| Dust arose like clouds of summer from each thunder sounding car | G |
| From the hoofs of charging coursers from the elephants of war | F |
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| Streams of red blood warm and bubbling issued from the countless slain | I |
| Flooded battle's dark arena like the floods of summer rain | I |
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| Sound of trumpet and of bugle drum and horn and echoing shell | C |
| And the neigh of charging coursers and the tuskers' dying wail | J |
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| And the yell of wounded Rakshas and the Vanars' fierce delight | D |
| Shook the earth and sounding welkin waked the echoes of the night | D |
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| Six bright arrows Rama thundered from his weapon dark and dread | K |
| Iron tooth d Vajra dranshtra and his fainting comrades fled | K |
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| Dauntless still the serried Rakshas wave on wave succeeding came | H |
| Perished under Rama's arrows as the moths upon the flame | H |
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| Indrajit the son of Ravan Lanka's glory and her pride | B |
| Matchless in his magic weapons came and turned the battle's tide | B |
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| What though Angad in his fury had his steeds and driver slayed | B |
| Indrajit hid in the midnight battled from its friendly shade | B |
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| Shrouded in a cloud of darkness still he poured his darts like rain | I |
| On young Lakshman and on Rama and on countless Vanars slain | I |
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| Matchless in his magic weapons then he hurled his Naga dart | B |
| Serpent noose upon his foemen draining lifeblood from their heart | B |
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| Vainly then the royal brothers fought the cloud enshrouded foe | E |
| Vainly sought the unseen warrior dealing unresisted blow | E |
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| Fastened by a noose of Naga forced by hidden foe to yield | B |
| Rama and the powerless Lakshman fell and fainted on the field | B |
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