Sita Lost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DD EF AA GG HH I AA JJ KK LL MM NN OO MM P QQ MM RS| Morning dawned and with Valmiki Sita to the gathering came | A |
| Banished wife and weeping mother sorrow stricken suffering dame | A |
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| Pure in thought and deed Valmiki gave his troth and plighted word | B |
| Faithful still the banished Sita in her bosom held her lord | C |
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| Mighty Saint ' so Rama answered as he bowed his humble head | D |
| 'Listening world will hear thy mandate and the word that thou hast said | D |
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| Never in his bosom Rama questioned Sita's faithful love | E |
| And the God of Fire incarnate did her stainless virtue prove | F |
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| Pardon if the voice of rumour drove me to a deed of shame | A |
| Bowing to my people's wishes I disowned my sinless dame | A |
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| Pardon if to please my subjects I have bade my Sita roam | G |
| Tore her from my throne and empire tore her from my heart and home | G |
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| In the dark and dreary forest was my Sita left to mourn | H |
| In the lone and gloomy jungle were my royal children born | H |
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| Help me Gods to wipe this error and this deed of sinful pride | I |
| May my Sita prove her virtue be again my loving bride ' | - |
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| Gods and Spirits bright Immortals to that royal Yajna came | A |
| Hen of every race and nation kings and chiefs of righteous fame | A |
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| Softly through the halls of splendour cool and scented breezes blew | J |
| Fragrance of celestial blossoms o'er the royal chambers flew | J |
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| Sita saw the bright Celestials monarchs gathered from afar | K |
| Saw her royal lord and husband bright as heaven ascending star | K |
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| Saw her sons as hermit minstrels beaming with a radiance high | L |
| Milk of love suffused her bosom tear of sorrow filled her eye | L |
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| Rama's queen and Janak's daughter will she stoop her cause to plead | M |
| Witness of her truth and virtue can a loving woman need | M |
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| Oh her woman s heart is bursting and her day on earth is done | N |
| And she pressed her heaving bosom slow and sadly thus begun | N |
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| 'If unstained in thought and action I have lived from day of birth | O |
| Spare a daughter's shame and anguish and receive her Mother Earth | O |
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| If in duty and devotion I have laboured undefiled | M |
| After Earth I who bore this woman once again receive thy child | M |
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| If in truth unto my husband I have proved a faithful wife | P |
| Mother Earth I relieve thy Sita from the burden of this life ' | - |
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| Then the earth was rent and parted and a golden throne arose | Q |
| Held aloft by jewelled Nagas as the leaves enfold the rose | Q |
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| And the Mother in embraces held her spotless sinless Child | M |
| Saintly Janak's saintly daughter pure and true and undefiled | M |
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| Gods and men proclaim her virtue But fair Sita is no more | R |
| Lone is Rama's loveless bosom and his days of bliss are o'er | S |
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