The Voice Of Hope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DD EE FF GG HH EE II JJ KK BB LL MM LL N LL LLHanuman from leafy shelters lifts his voice in sacred song | A |
Till the tale of Rama's glory Lanka's woods and vales prolong | A |
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'Listen Lady to my story Dasa ratha famed in war | B |
Rich in steeds and royal tuskers arm d men and battle car | C |
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Ruled his realm in truth and virtue in his bounty ever free | D |
Of the mighty race of Raghu mightiest king and monarch he | D |
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Robed in every royal virtue great in peace in battle brave | E |
Blest in bliss of grateful nations blest in blessings which he gave | E |
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And his eldest born and dearest Rama soul of righteous might | F |
Shone as mid the stars resplendent shines the radiant Lord of Night | F |
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True unto his sacred duty true unto his kith and kin | G |
Friend of piety and virtue punisher of crime and sin | G |
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Loved in all his spacious empire peopled mart and hermit's den | H |
With a truer deeper kindness Rama loved his subject men | H |
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Dasa ratha promise fettered then his cruel mandate gave | E |
Rama with his wife and brother lived in woods and rocky cave | E |
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And he slayed the deer of jungle and he slept in leafy shade | I |
Stem destroyer of the Rakshas in the pathless forests strayed | I |
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Till the monarch of the Rakshas fraudful is his impious life | J |
Cheated Rama in the jungle from his cottage stole his wife | J |
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Long lamenting lone and weary Rama wandered in the wood | K |
Searched for Sita in the jungle where his humble cottage stood | K |
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Godavari's gloomy gorges Krishna's dark and wooded shore | B |
And the ravine rock and valley and the cloud capped mountain hoar | B |
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Then he met the sad Sugriva in wild Malya's dark retreat | L |
Won for him his father's empire and his father's royal seat | L |
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Now Sagriva's countless forces wander far and wander near | M |
In the search of stolen Sita still unto his Rama dear | M |
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I am henchman of Sugriva and the mighty sea have crost | L |
In the quest of hidden Sita Rama's consort loved and lost | L |
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And methinks that form of beauty peerless shape of woman's grace | N |
Is my Rama's dear loved consort Rama's dear remembered face ' | - |
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Hushed the voice the ravished Sita cast her wond'ring eyes around | L |
Whence that song of sudden gladness whence that soul entrancing sound | L |
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Dawning hope and rising rapture overflowed her widowed heart | L |
Is it dream's deceitful whisper which the cruel Fates impart | L |
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