Sita In The Asoka Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH II JB II KK LL MM NN OO PP LL L II QQ RR EE OO EP LL I| Crossed the ocean's boundless waters Hanuman in duty brave | A |
| Lighted on the emerald island girded by the sapphire wave | A |
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| And in tireless quest of Sita searched the margin of the sea | B |
| In a dark Asoka garden hid himself within a tree | B |
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| Creepers threw their clasping tendrils round the trees of ample height | C |
| Stately palm and feathered cocoa fruit and blossom pleased the sight | C |
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| Herds of tame and gentle creatures in the grassy meadow strayed | D |
| Kokils sang in leafy thicket birds of plumage lit the shade | D |
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| Limpid lakes of scented lotus with their fragrance filled the air | E |
| Homes and huts of rustic beauty peeped through bushes green and fair | E |
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| Blossoms rich in tint and fragrance in the checkered shadow gleamed | F |
| Clustering fruits of golden beauty in the yellow sunlight beamed | F |
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| Brightly shone the red Asoka with the morning's golden ray | G |
| Karnikara and Kinsuka dazzling as the light of day | G |
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| Brightly grew the flower of Champak in the vale and on the reef | H |
| Punnaga and Saptaparna with its seven fold scented leaf | H |
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| Rich in blossoms many tinted grateful to the ravished eye | I |
| Gay and green and glorious Kanka was like garden of the sky | I |
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| Rich in fruit and laden creeper and in beauteous bush and trep | J |
| Flower bespangled golden Lanka was like gem bespangled sea | B |
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| Rose a palace in the woodlands girt by pillars strong and high | I |
| Snowy white like fair Kailasa cleaving through the azure sky | I |
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| And its steps were ocean coral and its pavement yellow gold | K |
| White and gay and heaven aspiring rose the structure high and bold | K |
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| By the rich and royal mansion Hanuman his eyes did rest | L |
| On a woman sad and sorrowing in her sylvan garments drest | L |
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| Like the moon obscured and clouded dim with shadows deep and dark | M |
| Like the smoke enshrouded red fire dying with a feeble spark | M |
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| Like the tempest pelted lotus by the wind and torrent shaken | N |
| Like the beauteous star Rohini by a graha overtaken | N |
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| Fasts and vigils paled her beauty tears bedimmed her tender grace | O |
| Anguish dwelt within her bosom sorrow darkened on her face | O |
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| And she lived by Rakshas guarded as a faint and timid deer | P |
| Severed from her herd and kindred when the prowling wolves are near | P |
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| And her raven locks ungathered hung behind in single braid | L |
| And her gentle eye was lightless and her brow was hid in shade | L |
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| 'This is she the peerless princess Rama's consort loved and lost | L |
| This is she the saintly Sita by a cruel fortune crost ' | - |
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| Hanuman thus thought and pondered 'On her graceful form I spy | I |
| Gems and gold by sorrowing Rama oft depicted with it sigh | I |
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| On her ears the golden pendants and the tiger's sharpened tooth | Q |
| On her arms the jewelled bracelets tokens of unchanging truth | Q |
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| On her pallid brow and bosom still the radiant jewels shine | R |
| Rama with a sweet affection did in early days entwine | R |
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| Hermit's garments clothe her person braided is her raven hair | E |
| Matted bark of trees of forest drape her neck and bosom fair | E |
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| And a dower of dazzling beauty still bedecks her peerless face | O |
| Though the shadowing tinge of sorrow darkens all her earlier grace | O |
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| This is she the soft eyed Sita wept with unavailing tear | E |
| This is she the faithful consort unto Rama ever dear | P |
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| Unforgetting and unchanging truthful still in deed and word | L |
| Sita in her silent suffering sorrows for her absent lord | L |
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| Still for Rama lost but cherished Sita heaves the choking sigh | I |
| Sita lives for righteous Rama for her Rama she would die ' | - |
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