The Counsel Of Agastya Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF G HH I JJ KK GG CC LL MM BB I NO LL| 'Pleased am I ' so spake Agastya 'in these forests dark and wild | A |
| Thou hast come to seek me Rama with the saintly Janak's child | A |
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| But like pale and drooping blossom severed from the parent tree | B |
| Far from home in toil and trouble faithful Sita follows thee | B |
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| True to wedded lord and husband she hath followed Raghu's son | C |
| With a woman's deep devotion woman's duty she hath done | C |
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| How unlike the fickle woman true while Fame and Fortune smile | D |
| Faithless when misfortunes gather loveless in her wicked wile | D |
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| How unlike the changeful woman false as light the lightnings fling | E |
| Keen as sabre quick as tempest swift as bird upon its wing | E |
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| Dead to Fortune's frown or favour Sita still in truth abides | F |
| As the star of Arundhati in her mansion still resides | F |
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| Rest thee with thy gentle consort farther still she may not roam | G |
| Holier were this hermit's forest as the saintly Sita's home ' | - |
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| 'Great Agastya ' answered Rama 'bless d is my banished life | H |
| For thy kindriess to an exile and his friendless homeless wife | H |
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| But in wilder gloomier forests lonesome we must wander still | I |
| Where a deeper darker shadow settles on the rock and rill ' | - |
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| 'Be it so ' Agastya answered 'two short yojans from this place | J |
| Wild is Panchavati's forest where unseen the wild deer race | J |
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| Godavari's limpid waters through its gloomy gorges flow | K |
| Fruit and root and luscious berries on its silent margin grow | K |
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| Seek that spot and with thy brother build a lonesome leafy home | G |
| Tend thy true and toil worn Sita farther still she may not roam | G |
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| Not unknown to me the mandate by thy royal father given | C |
| Not unseen thy endless wanderings destined by the will of Heaven | C |
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| Therefore Panchavati's forest marked I for thy woodland stay | L |
| Where the ripening wild fruit clusters and the wild bird trills his lay | L |
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| Tend thy dear devoted Sita and protect each pious rite | M |
| Matchless in thy warlike wcapons peerless in thy princely might | M |
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| Mark yon gloomy Mahua forest stretching o'er the boundless lea | B |
| Pass that wood and turning northward seek an old Nyagrodha tree | B |
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| Then ascend a sloping upland by a steep and lofty hill | I |
| Thou shalt enter Panchavati blossom covered calm and still ' | - |
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| Bowing to the great Agastya Rama left the mighty sage | N |
| Bowing to each saint and hermit Lakshman left the hermitage | O |
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| And the princes tall and stately marched where Panchavati lay | L |
| Soft eyed Sita followed meekly where her Rama led the way | L |
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