Recital Of The Ramayana Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DD EE FF GG FF HH I JG K L F GG MM AA M NO PP FF| When the silent night was ended and their pure ablutions done | A |
| Joyous went the minstrel brothers and their lofty lay begun | A |
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| Rama to the hermit minstrels lent a monarch's willing car | B |
| Blended with the simple music dulcet was the lay to hear | C |
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| And so sweet the chanted accents Rama's inmost soul was stirred | D |
| With his royal guests and courtiers still the deathless lay he heard | D |
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| Heralds versed in old Puranas Brahmans skilled in pious rite | E |
| Minstrels deep in lore of music poets fired by heavenly might | E |
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| Watchers of the constellations min'sters of the festive day | F |
| Men of science and of logic bards who sang the ancient lay | F |
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| Painters skilled and merry dancers who the festive joy prolong | G |
| Hushed and silent in their wonder listed to the wondrous song | G |
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| And as poured the flood of music through the bright and livelong day | F |
| Eyes and ears and hearts insatiate drank the nectar of the lay | F |
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| And the eager people whispered 'See the boys how like our king | H |
| As two drops of limpid water from the parent bubble spring | H |
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| Were the boys no hermit children in the hermit's garments clad | I |
| We would deem them Rama's image Rama as a youthful lad ' | - |
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| Twenty cantos of the Epic thus the youthful minstrels sung | J |
| And the voice of string d music through the Epic rolled along | G |
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| Out spake Rama in his wonder 'Scarce I know who these may be | K |
| Eighteen thousand golden pieces be the children minstrels' fee ' | - |
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| 'Not so ' answered thus the children 'we in darksome forests dwell | L |
| Gold and silver bounteous monarch forest life beseem not well ' | - |
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| 'Noble children ' uttered Rama 'dear to me the words you say | F |
| Tell me who composed this Epic Father of this deathless Lay ' | - |
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| 'Saint Valmiki ' spake the minstrels 'framed the great immortal song | G |
| Four and twenty thousand verses to this noble Lay belong | G |
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| Untold tales of deathless virtue sanctify his sacred line | M |
| And five hundred glorious cantos in this glorious Epic shine | M |
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| In six Books of mighty splendour was the poet's task begun | A |
| With a seventh Book supplemental is the poet's labour done | A |
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| All thy matchless deeds O monarch in this Lay will brighter shine | M |
| List to us from first to ending if thy royal heart incline ' | - |
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| 'Be it so ' thus Rama answered but the hours of day were o'er | N |
| And Valmiki's youthful pupils to their cottage came once more | O |
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| Rama with his guests and courtiers slowly left the royal hall | P |
| Eager was his heart to listen eager were the monarchs all | P |
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| And the voice of song and music thus was lifted day to day | F |
| And from day to day they listened to Valmiki's deathless Lay | F |
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