The Sentence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ II KK LL II MM N OO PP QQ RR SS NN TT UU GG GG VV B WW XX KK YY QQ FZ DD A2 II| Morning came and duteous Rama to the palace bent his way | A |
| For to make his salutation and his due obeisance pay | A |
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| And he saw his aged father shorn of kingly pomp and pride | B |
| And he saw the Queen Kaikeyi sitting by her consort's side | B |
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| Duteously the righteous Rama touched the ancient monarch's feet | C |
| Touched the feet of Queen Kaikeyi with a son's obeisance meet | C |
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| 'Rama ' cried the feeble monarch but the tear bedimmed his eye | D |
| Sorrow choked his failing utterance and his bosom heaved a sigh | D |
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| Rama started in his terror at his father's grief or wrath | E |
| Like a traveller in the jungle crossed by serpent in his path | E |
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| Reft of sense appeared the monarch crushed beneath a load of pain | F |
| Heaving oft a sigh of sorrow as his heart would break in twain | F |
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| Like the ocean tempest shaken like the sun in eclipse pale | G |
| Like a crushed repenting rishi when his truth and virtue fail | G |
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| Breathless mused the anxious Rama what foul action hath he done | H |
| What strange anger fills his father wherefore greets he not his son | H |
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| 'Speak my mother ' uttered Rama ' what strange error on my part | I |
| Unremembered sin or folly fills with grief my father's heart | I |
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| Gracious unto me is father with a father's boundless grace | J |
| Wherefore clouds his altered visage wherefore tears bedew his face | J |
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| Doth a piercing painful ailment rack his limbs with cruel smart | I |
| Doth some secret silent anguish wring his tom and tortured heart | I |
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| Bharat lives with brave Satrughns in thy father's realms afar | K |
| Hath some cloud of dark disaster crossed their bright auspicious star | K |
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| Duteously the royal consorts on the loving monarch wait | L |
| Hath some woe or dire misfortune dimmed the lustre of their fate | L |
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| I would yield my life and fortune ere I wound my father's heart | I |
| Rath my unknown crime or folly caused his ancient bosom smart | I |
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| Ever dear is Queen Kaikeyi to her consort and her king | M |
| Hath some angry accent escaped thee thus his royal heart to wring | M |
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| Speak my ever lovinging mother speak the truth for thou must know | N |
| What distress or deep disaster pains his heart and clouds his brow ' | - |
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| Mother's love nor woman's pity moved the deep determined queen | O |
| As in cold and cruel accents thus she spake her purpose keen | O |
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| 'Grief nor woe nor sudden ailment pains thy father loved of old | P |
| But he fears to speak his purpose to his Rama true and bold | P |
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| And his loving accents falter some unloving wish to tell | Q |
| Till you give your princely promise you Will serve his mandate well | Q |
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| Listen more in bygone seasons Rama thou wert then unborn | R |
| I had saved thy royal father he a gracious boon had sworn | R |
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| But his feeble heart repenting is by pride and passion stirred | S |
| He would break his royal promise as a caitiff breaks his word | S |
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| Years have passed and now the monarch would his ancient word forego | N |
| He would build a needless causeway when the waters ceased to flow | N |
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| Truth inspires each deed attempted and each word by monarchs spoke | T |
| Not for thee though loved and honoured should a royal vow be broke | T |
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| If the true and righteous Rama binds him by his father's vow | U |
| I will tell thee of the anguish which obscures his royal brow | U |
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| If thy feeble bosom falter and thy halting purpose fail | G |
| Unredeemed is royal promise and unspoken is my tale | G |
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| 'Speak thy word ' exclaimed the hero 'and my purpose shall not fail | G |
| Rama serves his father's mandate and his bosom shall not quail | G |
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| Poisoned cup or death untimely what the cruel fates decree | V |
| To his king and to his father Rama yields obedience free | V |
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| Speak my father's royal promise hold me by his promise tied | B |
| Rama speaks and shall not palter for his lips have never lied ' | - |
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| Cold and clear Kaikeyi's accents fell as falls the hunter's knife | W |
| 'Listen then to word of promise and redeem it with thy life | W |
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| Wounded erst by foes immortal saved by Queen Kaikeyi's care | X |
| Two great boons your father plighted and his royal words were fair | X |
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| I have sought their due fulfilment brightly shines my Bharat's star | K |
| Bharat shall be Heir and Regent Rama shall be banished far | K |
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| If thy father's royal mandate thou wouldst list and honour still | Y |
| Fourteen years in Dandak's forest live and wander at thy will | Y |
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| Seven long years and seven my Rama thou shalt in the jungle dwell | Q |
| Bark of trees shall be thy raiment and thy home the hermit's cell | Q |
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| Over fair Kosala's empire let my princely Bharat reign | F |
| With his cars and steeds and tuskers wealth and gold and arm d men | Z |
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| Tender hearted is the monarch age and sorrow dim his eye | D |
| And the anguish of a father checks his speech and purpose high | D |
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| For the love he bears thee Rama cruel vow he may not speak | A2 |
| I have spoke his will and mandate and thy true obedience seek ' | - |
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| Calmly Rama heard the mandate grief nor anger touched his heart | I |
| Calmly from his father's empire and his home prepared to part | I |
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