Pryamus-Thisbe - a Selfless Love - Part I
Pyramus was the handsome young man
Thisbe the fair maiden of Babylon
Both the parents’ houses did adjoin
Neighborhood brought the two in relation.
And the acquaintance ripened into love
And the fire within them burnt with bright glow
Would have married, but their parents forbid
Ardor in hearts of both they couldn’t forbid
They did converse by signs one can think of
The fire within them burnt like glow covered
But Venus won’t always befriend true love.
They found crack in wall that parted the houses
In spared passage for tender messages
Caused by fault in the wall of the mansion
What will not love find for satisfaction!!.
They passed the tender messages of love
As the night fell they said farewell with awe
Moving backward and forward through the gap
She on her side, he on his, kissed the gap.
One morn the sun put out the stars above
From the watchful eyes, they tried to slipup
But Venus won’t always befriend true love.
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This is the first part of the poem as I could not post it in this single post.
The poem has five stanzas of 11 lines and an envoi of five lines.
Chant royal [shahn rwa-yal],
A French verse form normally consisting of five stanzas of eleven 10-syllable lines
rhyming ababccddede, followed by an envoi (or half-stanza) rhyming ddede. The last
line of the first stanza is repeated as a refrain at the end of the succeeding stanzas and
of the envoi. The pattern is similar to that of the ballade, but even more demanding.
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