Ravan's Second Battle And Vengeance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC AA DD AA EE C FF GG HI JJ KK LL AA KK MM LL EE IH NO AA LL LL LL PP CC L LL LL

Voice of woe and lamentation and the cry of woman's wailA
Issuing from the homes of Lanka did the monarch's ears awailA
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And a mighty thought of vengeance waked within the monarch's heartB
And he heaved a sigh of anguish as he grasped his bow and dartB
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'Arm each chief and gallant Raksha be our sacred duty doneC
Ravan seeks a fitting vengeance for his brave and noble sonC
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Mahodar and Virupaksha Mahaparshwa warrior tallA
Arm this fated day will witness Lakshman's or your monarch's fallA
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Call to mind each slaughtered hero Khara Dushan slain in fightD
Kumbha kama giant warrior Indrajit of magic mightD
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Earth nor sky shall hide my foemen nor the ocean's heaving swellA
Scattered ranks of Rama's forces shall my speedy vengeance tellA
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Be the red earth strewn and covered with our countless foemen slainE
Hungry wolves and blood beaked vultures feed upon the ghastly plainE
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For his great and gallant brother for his brave and beauteous sonC
Ravan seeks a fitting vengeance Rakshas be your duty done '-
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House to house in Lanka's city Ravan's royal best was heardF
Street and lane poured forth their warriors by a mighty passion stirredF
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With the javelin and sabre mace and club and axe and pikeG
Sataghni and bhindipala quoit and discus quick to strikeG
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And they formed the line of tuskers and the line of battle carH
Mule and camel fit for burden and the fiery steed of warI
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Serried ranks of arm d soldiers shook the earth beneath their treadJ
Horsemen that on wings of lightning o'er the field of battle spreadJ
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Drum and conch and sounding trumpet waked the echoes of the skyK
Pataha and loud mridanga and the people's maddening cryK
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Thundering through the gates of Lanka Ravan's lofty chariot passedL
Destined by his fortune Ravan ne'er again those portals crostL
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And the sun was dim and clouded and a sudden darkness fellA
Birds gave forth their boding voices and the earth confessed a spellA
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Gouts of blood in rain descended startled coursers turned to flyK
Vultures swooped upon the banner jackals yelled their doleful cryK
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Omens of a dark disaster mantled o'er the vale and rockM
And the ocean heaved in billows nations felt the earthquake shockM
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Darkly closed the fatal battle sturdy Vanars fell in fightL
Warlike leaders of the Rakshas perished neath the foeman's mightL
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Mahodhar and Virupaksha were by bold Sugriva slainE
Crushed by Angad Mahaparshwa slumbered lifeless on the plainE
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But with more than mortal valour Ravan swept the ranks of warI
Warriors fell beneath his prowess fled before his mighty carH
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Cleaving through the Vanar forces filled with vengeance deep and direN
Ravan marked the gallant Lakshman flaming like a crimson fireO
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Like the tempest cloud of summer Ravan's wing d courses flewA
But Bibhishan in his prowess soon the gallant charges slewA
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Dashina from his useless chariot Ravan leaped upon the groundL
And his false and traitor brother by his dearest foeman foundL
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Wrathful Ravan marked Bibhishan battling by the foeman's sideL
And he hurled his pond'rous weapon for to slay him in his prideL
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Lakshman marked the mighty jav'lin as it winged its whizzing flightL
Cleft it in its onward passage saved Bibhishan by his mightL
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Grimly smiled the angry Ravan gloating in his vengeful wrathP
Spake to young and dauntless Laksliman daring thus to cross his pathP
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Welcome Lakshman thee I battle for thy deed of darkness doneC
Face the anger of a father cruel slayer of the sonC
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By thy skill and by thy valour false Bibhishan thou hast savedL
Save thyself Deep in this bosom is a cruel grief engraved '-
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Father's grief and sad remembrance urged the lightning wing d dartL
Ravan's Sakti fell resistless on the senseless Lakshman's heartL
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Wrathful Rama saw the combat and arose in godlike mightL
Carless steedless wounded Ravan sought his safety in his flightL

Valmiki



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