Ordeal By Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DD EE FF GG AA HH I JJ KL MM AA AA A NN LL NN LL HH| For she dwelt in Ravan's dwelling rumour clouds a woman's fame | A |
| Righteous Rama's brow was clouded saintly Sita spake in shame | A |
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| 'Wherefore spake ye not my Rama if your bosom doubts my faith | B |
| Dearer than a dark suspicion to a woman were her death | C |
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| Wherefore Rama with your token came your vassal o'er the wave | D |
| To assist a fallen woman and a tainted wife to save | D |
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| Wherefore with vour mighty forces crossed the ocean in your pride | E |
| Risked your fife in endless combats for a sin polluted bride | E |
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| Hast thou Rama all forgotten Saintly Janak saw my birth | F |
| Child of harvest bearing furrow Sita sprang from Mother Earth | F |
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| As a maiden true and stainless unto thee I gave my hand | G |
| As a consort fond and faithful roved with thee from land to land | G |
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| But a woman pleadeth vainly when suspicion clouds her name | A |
| Lakshman if thou lov'st thy sister light for me the funeral flame | A |
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| When the shadow of dishonour darkens o'er a woman's life | H |
| Death alone is friend and refuge of a true and trustful wife | H |
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| When a righteous lord and husband turns his cold averted eyes | I |
| FuneraI flame dispels suspicion honour lives when woman dies ' | - |
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| Dark was Rama's gloomy visage and his lips were firmly sealed | J |
| And his eye betraved no weakness word disclosed no thought concealed | J |
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| Silent heaved his heart in anguish silent drooped his tortured head | K |
| Lakshman with a throbbing bosom funeral pyre for Sita made | L |
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| And Videha's sinless daughter prayed unto the Gods above | M |
| On her lord and wedded consort cast her dying looks of love | M |
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| 'If in act and thought ' she uttered ' I am true unto my name | A |
| Witness of our sins and virtues may this Fire protect my fame | A |
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| If a false and lying scandal brings a faithful woman shame | A |
| Witness of our sins and virtues may this Fire protect my fame | A |
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| If in lifelong loving duty I am free from sin and blame | A |
| Witness of our sins and virtues may this Fire protect my fame ' | - |
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| Fearless in her faith and valour Sita stepped upon the pyre | N |
| And her form of beauty vanished circled by the clasping fire | N |
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| And an anguish shook the people like the ocean tempest tost | L |
| Old and young and maid and matron wept for Sita true and lost | L |
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| For bedecked in golden splendour and in gems and rich attire | N |
| Sita vanished in the red fire of the newly lighted pyre | N |
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| Rishis and the great Gandharvas Gods who know each secret deed | L |
| Witnessed Sita's high devotion and a woman's lofty creed | L |
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| And the earth by ocean girdled with its wealth of teeming life | H |
| Witnessed deed of dauntless duty of a true and stainless wife | H |
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