Woman's Truth Vindicated Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DD AA EE FF G HH II CB JK LL A MMSlow the red flames rolled asunder God of Fire incarnate came | A |
Holding in his radiant bosom fair Videha's sinless dame | A |
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Not a curl upon her tresses not a blossom on her brow | B |
Not a fibre of her mantle did with tarnished lustre glow | C |
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Witness of our sins and virtues God of Fire incarnate spake | D |
Bade the sorrow stricken Rama back his sinless wife to take | D |
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'Ravan in his impious folly forced from thee thy faithful dame | A |
Guarded by her changeless virtue Sita still remains the same | A |
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Tempted oft by female Rakshas in the dark and dismal wood | E |
In her woe and in her sadness true to thee hath Sita stood | E |
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Courted oft by royal Ravan in the forest far and lone | F |
True to wedded troth and virtue Sita thought of thee alone | F |
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Pare is she in thought and action pure and stainless true and meek | G |
I the witness of all actions thus my sacred mandate speak ' | - |
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Rama's forehead was unclouded and a radiance lit his eye | H |
And his bosom heaved in gladness as he spake in accents high | H |
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Never from the time I saw her in her maiden days of youth | I |
Have I doubted Sita's virtue Sita's fixed and changeless truth | I |
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I have known her ever sinless let the world her virtue know | C |
For the God of Fire is witness to her truth and changeless vow | B |
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Ravan in his pride and passion conquered not a woman's love | J |
For the virtuous like the bright fire in their native radiance move | K |
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Ravan in his rage and folly conquered not a faithful wife | L |
For like ray of sun unsullied is a righteous woman's life | L |
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Be the wide world now a witness pure and stainless is my dame | A |
Rama shall not leave his consort till he leaves his righteous fame ' | - |
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In his tears the contrite Rama clasped her in a soft embrace | M |
And the fond forgiving Sita in his bosom hid her face | M |
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