Anashuya And Vijaya Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABC BDEFGHBIJKL MN OPI I QRI S CTCTUCVVCWIX HRY ZA2B2IC2D2NHE2ENF2 G2IIG2H2I2J2 K2 L2TM2EAN2O2K2P2IQ2 XHK2H HP2THR2 S2 D2 T2Q2U2V2E2IW2IX2IJ2 J2 H2Q2H2RQ2Y2Y2 IPIRY2R2WGNHQ2

A little Indian temple in the Golden Age Around it a gardenA
around that the forest Anashuya the young priestess kneelingB
within the templeC
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Anashuya Send peace on all the lands and flickeringB
cornD
O may tranquillity walk by his elbowE
When wandering in the forest if he loveF
No other Hear and may the indolent flocksG
Be plentiful And if he love anotherH
May panthers end him Hear and load our kingB
With wisdom hour by hour May we two standI
When we are dead beyond the setting sunsJ
A little from the other shades apartK
With mingling hair and play upon one luteL
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Vijaya entering and throwing a lily at her Hail hail myM
AnashuyaN
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Anashuya No be stillO
I priestess of this temple offer upP
prayers for the landI
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Vijaya I will wait here AmritaI
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Anashuya By mighty Brahma's ever rustling robeQ
Who is Amrita Sorrow of all sorrowsR
Another fills your mindI
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Vijaya My mother's nameS
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Anashuya sings coming out of the templeC
A sad sad thought went by me slowlyT
Sigh O you little stars O sigh and shake your blue apparelC
The sad sad thought has gone from me now whollyT
Sing O you little stars O sing and raise your rapturousU
carolC
To mighty Brahma be who made you many as the sandsV
And laid you on the gates of evening with his quiet handsV
Sits down on the steps of the templeC
Vijaya I have brought my evening riceW
The sun has laid his chin on the grey woodI
Weary with all his poppies gathered round himX
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Vijaya The hour when Kama full of sleepy laughterH
Rises and showers abroad his fragrant arrowsR
Piercing the twilight with their murmuring barbsY
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Anashuya See how the sacred old flamingoes comeZ
Painting with shadow all the marble stepsA2
Aged and wise they seek their wonted perchesB2
Within the temple devious walking madeI
To wander by their melancholy mindsC2
Yon tall one eyes my supper chase him awayD2
Far far away I named him after youN
He is a famous fisher hour by hourH
He ruffles with his bill the minnowed streamsE2
Ah there he snaps my rice I told you soE
Now cuff him off He's off A kiss for youN
Because you saved my rice Have you no thanksF2
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Vijaya sings Sing you of her O first few starsG2
Whom Brahma touching with his finger praises for you holdI
The van of wandering quiet ere you be too calm and oldI
Sing turning in your carsG2
Sing till you raise your hands and sigh and from your carH2
heads peerI2
With all your whirling hair and drop many an azure tearJ2
-
Anashuya What know the pilots of the stars of tearsK2
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Vijaya Their faces are all worn and in their eyesL2
Flashes the fire of sadness for they seeT
The icicles that famish all the NorthM2
Where men lie frozen in the glimmering snowE
And in the flaming forests cower the lionA
And lioness with all their whimpering cubsN2
And ever pacing on the verge of thingsO2
The phantom Beauty in a mist of tearsK2
While we alone have round us woven woodsP2
And feel the softness of each other's handI
Amrita whileQ2
-
Anashuya going away from himX
Ah me you love anotherH
Bursting into tearsK2
And may some sudden dreadful ill befall herH
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Vijaya I loved another now I love no otherH
Among the mouldering of ancient woodsP2
You live and on the village border sheT
With her old father the blind wood cutterH
I saw her standing in her door but nowR2
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Anashuya Vijaya swear to love her never moreS2
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Vijaya Ay ayD2
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Anashuya Swear by the parents of the godsT2
Dread oath who dwell on sacred HimalayQ2
On the far Golden peak enormous shapesU2
Who still were old when the great sea was youngV2
On their vast faces mystery and dreamsE2
Their hair along the mountains rolled and filledI
From year to year by the unnumbered nestsW2
Of aweless birds and round their stirless feetI
The joyous flocks of deer and antelopeX2
Who never hear the unforgiving houndI
SwearJ2
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Vijaya By the parents of the gods I swearJ2
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Anashuya sings I have forgiven O new starH2
Maybe you have not heard of us you have come forth so newlyQ2
You hunter of the fields afarH2
Ah you will know my loved one by his hunter's arrowsR
trulyQ2
Shoot on him shafts of quietness that he may ever keepY2
A lonely laughter and may kiss his hands to me in sleepY2
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Farewell Vijaya Nay no word no wordI
I priestess of this temple offer upP
Prayers for the landI
Vijaya goesR
O Brahma guard in sleepY2
The merry lambs and the complacent kineR2
The flies below the leaves and the young miceW
In the tree roots and all the sacred flocksG
Of red flamingoes and my love VijayaN
And may no restless fay with fidget fingerH
Trouble his sleeping give him dreams of meQ2

William Butler Yeats



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