Sita's Token Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CD EE FF GG HH II JJ KL JJ BI MM NN OO PH QQ RR SS T| Token from her raven tresses Sita to the Vanar gave | A |
| Hanuman with dauntless valour crossed once more the ocean wave | A |
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| Where in Prasra vana's mountain Rama with his brother stayed | B |
| Jewel from the brow of Sita by her sorrowing consort laid | B |
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| Spake of Ravan's foul endearment and his loathsome loving word | C |
| Spake of Sita's scorn and anger and her truth unto her lord | D |
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| Tears of sorrow and affection from the warrior's eyelids start | E |
| As his consort's loving token Rama presses to his heart | E |
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| 'As the mother cow Sugriva yields her milk beside her young | F |
| Welling tears upon this token yields my heart by anguish wrung | F |
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| Well I know this dear loved jewel sparkling with the ray of heaven | G |
| Born in sea by mighty INDRA to my Sita's father given | G |
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| Well I know this tender token Janak placed it on her hair | H |
| When she came my bride and consort decked in beauty rich and rare | H |
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| Well I know this sweet memorial Sita wore it on her head | I |
| And her proud and peerless beauty on the gem a lustre shed | I |
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| Ah methink the gracious Janak stands again before my eye | J |
| With a father's fond affection with a monarch's stature high | J |
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| Ah methinks my bride and consort she who wore it on her brow | K |
| Stands again before the altar speaks again her loving row | L |
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| Ah the sad the sweet remembrance ah the happy days gone by | J |
| Once again O loving vision wilt thou gladden Rama's eye | J |
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| Speak again my faithful vassal how my Sita wept and prayed | B |
| Like the water to the thirsty dear to me what Sita said | I |
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| Did she send this sweet remembrance as a blessing from above | M |
| As a true and tender token of a woman's changeless love | M |
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| Did she waft her heart's affection o'er the billows of the sea | N |
| Wherefore came she not in person from her foes and fetters free | N |
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| llanuman iny friend and comrade lead me to the distant isle | O |
| Where my soft eyed Sita lingers midst the Rakshas dark and vile | O |
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| Where my true and tender consort like a lone and stricken deer | P |
| Girt by Rakshas stern and ruthless sheds the unavailing tear | H |
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| Where she weeps in ceaseless anguish sorrow stricken sad and pale | Q |
| Like the Moon by dark clouds shrouded then her light and lustre fail | Q |
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| Speak again my faithful henchman loving message of my wife | R |
| Like some potent drug her accents renovate my fainting life | R |
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| Arm thy forces friend Sugriva Rama shall not brook delay | S |
| While in distant Lanka's confines Sita weeps the livelong day | S |
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| Marshal forth thy bannered forces cross the ocean in thy might | T |
| Rama speeds on wings of vengeance Lanka's impious lord to smite ' | - |
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