Ravan's Decision Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH FF II JJ KK LM N| Anger swelled in Ravan's bosom as he cast his blood red eye | A |
| On Bibhishan calm and fearless and he spake in accents high | A |
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| 'Rather dwell with open foemen or in homes where cobras haunt | B |
| Than with faithless friends who falter and whom fears of danger daunt | B |
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| O the love of near relations false and faithless full of guile | C |
| How they sorrow at my glory at my danger how they smile | C |
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| How they grieve with secret anguish when my loftier virtues shine | D |
| How they harbour jealous envy when deserts and fame are mine | D |
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| How they scan with curious vision every fault that clouds my path | E |
| How they wait with eager longing till I fall in Fortune's wrath | E |
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| Ask the elephants of jungle how their captors catch and bind | F |
| Not by fire and feeble weapons but by treason of their kind | F |
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| Not by javelin or arrow little for these arms they care | G |
| But their false and fondling females lead them to the hunter's snare | G |
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| Long as nourishment and vigour shall impart the milk of cow | H |
| Long as woman shall be changeful hermits holy in their vow | H |
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| Ave so long shall near relations bate us in their inner mind | F |
| Mark us with a secret envy though their words be ne'er so kind | F |
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| Rain drops fall upon the lotus but unmingling hang apart | I |
| False relations round us gather but they blend not heart with heart | I |
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| Winter clouds are big with thunder but they shed no freshening rain | J |
| False relations smile and greet us but their soothing words are vain | J |
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| Bees are tempted by the honey but from flower to flower they range | K |
| False relations share our favour but in secret seek a change | K |
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| Lying is thy speech Bibhishan secret envy hirks within | L |
| Thou wouldst rule thy elder's empire thou wouldst wed thy elder's queen | M |
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| Take thy treason to the foemen brother's blood I may not shed | N |
| Other Raksha craven hearted by my royal hands had bled ' | - |
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