Indrajit's Third Battle And Fall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DE CC FG HH II JJ CC CC KL JJ MM C CC MM NN CC OO J CC NN PP KL QQ C CC C CC RR CC SL CC LL BB CC| Healing herbs from distant mountains Hanuman in safety brought | A |
| Rama rose and gallant Lakshman once again their foemen sought | A |
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| And when night its sable mantle o'er the earth and ocean drew | B |
| Forcing through the gates of Lanka to the frightened city flew | B |
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| Gallant sons of Kumbha kama vainly fought to stem the tide | C |
| Hanuman and brave Sugriva slew the brothers in their pride | C |
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| Makaraksha shark eyed warrior vainly struggled with the foe | D |
| Rama laid him pierced and lifeless by an arrow from his bow | E |
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| Indrajit arose in anger for his gallant kinsmen slayed | C |
| In his arts and deep devices Sita's beauteous image made | C |
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| And he placed the form of beauty on his speeding battle car | F |
| With his sword he smote the image in the gory field of war | G |
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| Rama heard the fatal message which his faithful Vanars gave | H |
| And a deathlike trance and tremor fell upon the warrior brave | H |
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| But Bibhishan deep in wisdom to the anguished Rama came | I |
| With his words of consolation spake of Rama's righteous dame | I |
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| 'Trust me Rama trust thy comrade for I know our wily house | J |
| Indrajit slays not the woman whom his father seeks as spouse | J |
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| 'Tis for Sita impious Ravan meets thee on the battle field | C |
| Stakes his life and throne and empire but thy Sita will not yield | C |
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| Deem not that the king of Rakshas will permit her blood be shed | C |
| Indrajit slays not the woman whom his father seeks to wed | C |
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| 'Twas an image of thy Sita Indrajit hath cleft in twain | K |
| While our army wails and sorrows he performs his rites again | L |
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| To the holy Nikumbhila Indrajit in secret hies | J |
| For the rights which yield him prowess hide him in the cloudy skies | J |
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| Let young Lakshman seek the foeman ere his magic rites be done | M |
| Once the sacrifice completed none can combat Ravan's son | M |
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| Let young Lakshman speed through Lanka till his wily foe is found | C |
| Slay the secret sacrificer on the sacrificial ground ' | - |
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| Unto holy Nikumbhila Lakshman with Bibhishan went | C |
| Bravest choicest of the army Rama with his brother sent | C |
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| Magic rites and sacrifices Indrajit had scarce begun | M |
| When surprised by arm d foemen rose in anger Ravan's son | M |
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| 'Art thou he ' thus to Bibhishan Indrajit in anger spake | N |
| 'Brother of my royal father stealing thus my life to take | N |
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| Raksha born of Raksha parents dost thou glory in this deed | C |
| Traitor to thy king and kinsmen false to us in direst need | C |
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| Scorn and pity fill my bosom thus to see thee leave thy kin | O |
| Serving as a slave of foemen stooping to a deed of sin | O |
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| For the slave who leaves his kindred basely seeks the foemans grace | J |
| Meets destruction from the foeman after he destroys his race ' | - |
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| 'Untaught child of impure passions ' thus Bibhishan answer made | C |
| 'Of my righteous worth unconscious bitter accents hast thou said | C |
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| Know proud youth that Truth and Virtue in my heart precedence take | N |
| And we shun the impious kinsman as we shun the pois'nous snake | N |
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| Listen youth this earth no longer bears thy father's sin and strife | P |
| Plunder of the righteous neighbour passion for the neighbour's wife | P |
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| Earth and skies have doomed thy father for his sin polluted reign | K |
| Unto Gods his proud defiance and his wrongs to sons of men | L |
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| Listen more this fated Lanka groans beneath her load of crime | Q |
| And shall perish in her folly by the ruthless hand of Time | Q |
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| Thou shalt perish and thy father and this proud presumptuous state | C |
| Lakshman meets thee impious Raksha by the stern decree of Fate ' | - |
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| 'Hast thou too forgot the lesson ' Indrajit to Lakshman said | C |
| 'Twice in field of war unconscious thee with Rama have I laid | C |
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| Dost thou stealing like a serpent brave my yet unconquered might | C |
| Perish boy in thy presumption in this last and fatal fight ' | - |
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| Spake the hero 'Like a coward hid beneath a mantling cloud | C |
| Thou hast battled like a caitiff safe behind thy sheltering shroud | C |
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| Now I seek an open combat time is none to prate or speak | R |
| Boastful word is coward's weapon weapons and thy arrows seek | R |
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| Soon they mixed in dubious combat fury fired each foeman's heart | C |
| Either warrior felt his rival worthy of his bow and dart | C |
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| Lakshman with his hurtling arrows pierced the Raksha's golden mail | S |
| Shattered by the Raksha's weapons Lakshman's useless armour fen | L |
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| Red with gore and dim in eyesight still the chiefs in fury fought | C |
| Neither quailed bef ore his f oeman pause nor grace nor mercy sought | C |
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| Till with more than human valour Lakshman drew his bow amain | L |
| Slayed the Raksha's steeds and driver severed too his bow in twain | L |
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| 'If the great and godlike Rama is in faith and duty true | B |
| Gods assist the cause of virtue ' Lakahman uttered as he drew | B |
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| Fatal was the dart unerring Gods assist the true and bold | C |
| On the field of Nikumbhila Lakshman's foeman headless rolled | C |
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