Intrigue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ KK LL GM II NL OO PP KK GG QQ RR SS T EE EE LL UU QQ VV WW XX QQ AA YZ OO A2T B2B2 TA2 KG C2C2 D2D2 II ZY E2E2 LL A F2G2 H2H2| In the inner palace chamber stood the proud and peerless queen | A |
| With a mother's joy Kaikeyi gaily watched the festive scene | A |
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| But with deep and deadly hatred Manthara her nurse and maid | B |
| Marked the city bright with banners and in scornful accents said | C |
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| 'Take thy presents back Kaikeyi for they ill befit the clay | D |
| And when clouds of sorrow darken ill beseems thee to be gay | D |
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| And thy folly moves my laughter though an anguish wakes my sigh | E |
| For a gladness stirs thy bosom when thy greatest woo is nigh | E |
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| Who that hath a woman's wisdom who that is a prudent wife | F |
| Smiles in joy when prouder rival triumphs in the race of life | F |
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| How can hapless Queen Kaikeyi greet this deed of darkness done | G |
| When the favoured Queen Kausalya wins the empire for her son | G |
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| Know the truth O witless woman Bharat is unmatched in fame | H |
| Rama deep and darkly jealous dreads thy Bharat's rival claim | H |
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| Younger Lakshman with devotion doth on eldest Rama wait | I |
| Young Satrughna with affection follows Bharat's lofty fate | I |
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| Rama dreads no rising danger from the twins the youngest born | J |
| But thy Bharat's claims and virtues fill his jealous heart with scorn | J |
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| Trust me queen thy Bharat's merits are too well and widely known | K |
| And he stands too near and closely by a rival brother's throne | K |
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| Rama hath a wolf like wisdom and a fang to reach the foe | L |
| And I tremble for thy Bharat Heaven avert untimely woe | L |
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| Happy is the Queen Kausalya they will soon anoint her son | G |
| When on Pushya's constellation gaily rides to morrow's moon | M |
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| Happy is the Queen Kausalya in her regal pomp and state | I |
| And Kaikeyi like a bond slave must upon her rival wait | I |
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| Wilt thou do her due obeisance as we humble women do | N |
| Will thy proud and princely Bharat as his brother's henchman go | L |
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| Will thy Bharat's gentle consort fairest princess in this land | O |
| In her tears and in her anguish wait on Sita's proud command | O |
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| With a woman's scornful anger Manthara proclaimed her grief | P |
| With a mother's love for Rama thus Kaikeyi answered brief | P |
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| 'What inspires thee wicked woman thus to rail in bitter tone | K |
| Shall not Rama best and eldest fill his father's royal throne | K |
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| What alarms thee crooked woman in the happy rites begun | G |
| Shall not Rama guard his brothers as a father guards his son | G |
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| And when Rama's reign is over shall not Gods my Bharat speed | Q |
| And by law and ancient custom shall not younger son succeed | Q |
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| In the present bliss of Rama and in Bharat's future hope | R |
| What offends thee senseless woman wherefore dost thou idly mope | R |
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| Dear is Rama as my Bharat ever duteous in his ways | S |
| Rama honours Queen Kausalya loftier honour to me pays | S |
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| Rama's realm is Bharat's kingdom ruling partners they shall prove | T |
| For himself than for his brothers Rama owns no deeper love ' | - |
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| Scorn and anger shook her person and her bosom heaved a sigh | E |
| As in wilder fiercer accents Manthara thus made reply | E |
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| What insensate rage or madness clouds thy heart and blinds thine eye | E |
| Courting thus thy own disaster courting danger dread and high | E |
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| What dark folly clouds thy vision to the workings of thy foe | L |
| Heedless thus to seek destruction and to sink in gulf of woe | L |
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| Know fair queen by law and custom son ascends the throne of pride | U |
| Rama's son succeedeth Rama luckless Bharat steps aside | U |
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| Brothers do not share a kingdom nor can one by one succeed | Q |
| Mighty were the civil discord if such custom were decreed | Q |
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| For to stop all war and tumult thus the ancient laws ordain | V |
| Eldest son succeeds his father younger children may not reign | V |
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| Bharat barred from Rama's empire vainly decked with royal grace | W |
| Friendless joyless long shall wander alien from his land and race | W |
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| Thou hast home the princely Bharat nursed him from thy gentle breast | X |
| To a queen and to a mother need a prince's claims be pressed | X |
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| To a thoughtless heedless mother must I Bharat's virtues plead | Q |
| Must the Queen Kaikeyi witness Queen Kausalya's son succeed | Q |
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| Trust thy old and faithful woman who bath nursed thee youthful queen | A |
| And in great and princely houses many darksome deeds hath seen | A |
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| Trust my word the wily Rama for his spacious empire's good | Y |
| Soon will banish friendless Bharat and secure his peace with blood | Z |
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| Thou hast sent the righteous Bharat to thy ancient father's land | O |
| And Satrughna young an valiant doth beside his brother stand | O |
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| Young in years and generous hearted they will grow in mutual love | A2 |
| As the love of elder Rama doth in Lakshman's bosom move | T |
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| Young companions grow in friendship and our ancient legends tell | B2 |
| Weeds protect a forest monarch which the woodman's axe would fell | B2 |
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| Crown d Rama unto Lakshman will a loving brother prove | T |
| But for Bharat and Satrughna Rama's bosom owns no love | A2 |
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| And a danger thus ariseth if the elder wins the throne | K |
| Haste thee heedless Queen Kaikeyi save the younger and thy son | G |
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| Speak thy mandate to thy husband let thy Bharat rule at home | C2 |
| In the deep and pathless jungle let the banished Rama roam | C2 |
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| This will please thy ancient father and thy father's kith and kin | D2 |
| This will please the righteous people Bharat knows no guile or sin | D2 |
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| Speak thy mandate to thy husband win thy son a happy fate | I |
| Doom him not to Rama's service or his unrelenting hate | I |
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| Let not Rama in his rancour shed a younger brother's blood | Z |
| As the lion slays the tiger in the deep and echoing wood | Y |
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| With the magic of thy beauty thou hast won thy monarch's heart | E2 |
| Queen Kausalya's bosom rankles with a woman's secret smart | E2 |
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| Let her not with woman's vengeance turn upon her prouder foe | L |
| And as crown d Rama's mother venge her in Kaikeyi's woe | L |
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| Mark my word my child Kaikeyi much these ancient eyes have seen | A |
| Rama's rule is death to Bharat insult to my honoured queen ' | - |
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| Like a slow but deadly poison worked the ancient nurse's tears | F2 |
| And a wife's undying impulse mingled with a mother's fears | G2 |
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| Deep within Kaikeyi's bosom worked a woman's jealous thought | H2 |
| Speechless in her scorn and anger mourner's dark retreat she sought | H2 |
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