Nu le Pa le Tu le Fa
"We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow,
Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so."
A tlun ih bezai hi kum zabi 18 lai ih English bezaipu ropi bik Alexander Pope ih ngan mi a si. Mi tam sawn theih olsam ding cun, Alexander Pope cu kan ram phun hra English zirlaibu ih 'The Quiet Life' ngantu kha a si. ' The Quiet Life' hi kum 14 a si lai ih a ngan mi a si ih amah cun 'Solitude' (Mahtei' Um) ti'n hmin a rak pe.
A tlun ih tarlang mi bezai khi a pianhmang (ruang-am) lam ih thlir cun Heroic Couplet tiah an ko. Couplet timi cu a țelh aw mi iambic sum-nga catlang pahnih canghlawm (a stanza of two iambic pentameter lines rhyming together) a si.
Awfang niam (unstressed syllable) pakhat in awfang sang (stressed syllable) pakhat a thlun mi kop khat kha 'iamb khat lole iambic monometer' tiah an ko (mono=pakhat, di=pahnih, tri=pathum, tetra=pali, penta=panga). Țhimnak ah 'zawngțah' timi ah 'zawng' ih awsuak a niam ih 'țah' khi a awsuak a sang.
Curuangah 'iambic pentameter' cu awfang niam le awfang sang thleithlak aw vei nga a um mi bezai catlang pakhat tinak a si.
We #think our #fa-thers #fools, so #wise we #grow,
Our #wi-ser #sons, no #doubt, will #think us #so.
(Sharp retnak zawn khi awfang sang an si. Awfang le țongfang theih rawi lo ding. An bangawklonak cu 'fathers' le 'wiser' ah an lang).
Heroic Couplet timi cu English bezai khaipa Chaucer in nasa zet in a rak hman thok mi bezai canghlawm (stanza) a si ih, John Dryden le Alexander Pope in leitlun calai kutsuak ropi bik a si mi, Greek bezaipu Homer ih epic bezai Iliad le Odessey, Latin bezaipu Virgil ih epic Aeneid bezai pawl English ih an leh tikah himi couplet hi an rak hmang. Epic bezai cu pacang țha le ralhrang pawl thuhla a tam ruangah 'Heroic Couplet' an run ti.
Lehhnu ahcun ziangvek thuhla an run ngan khalle, iambic pentameter catlang pahnih a si ding, a țelh aw ding (rhymed) ih, catlang pahnih ah thuhla pakhat a cem ahcun Heroic Couplet tiah an ko thluh.
Cun, a tican le thuhla a herhkual dan lam in kan zoh asile himi bezai hi Epigram a si. Epigram timi cu mi ziaunak, hnihsuak si fawn thungai si fawn thuhla, numsimnak le thuhla phunphun kha mawi zet ih herhkual mi, vei tampi ahcun mei nei deuh țongkam hman hrim mi, tivek khi a si.
A bezai ih tican cu țong tluangtlam in kan rel asile: kan pa le pawl cu mi aa an si, kannih cu fimvar zet in kan țhanglian, tiah kan ruat. Kannih hnakih a fimvar sawn mi kan fapa pawl khal in cutin in ruat ve ding ti cu rinhlelh ding a um lo.
A hleice in, suakthuan/tleirawl hung si thok ihsin nu le pa, pi le pu pawl cu san an man lo tuk, an khuahlan tuk, tulai thil um dan an kai thiam lo, kannih cun kan hmu thiam in kan theithiam tuk nan, annih cu an buhsah tuk ti in kan ruat țheu.
Suakthuan in hivek in upa pawl an hmu timi hi thu dik a rak si, a si lai ih, a si vivo lai ding fawn.
Asinan cui suakthuan pawl khal an hung țhanglian vivo ding ih, nupi fanau an hun neih tikah annih hnakih fim sawn ah a ruatawtu an fa le pawl in, ka pa le pawl cu san an man lo tuk, thil um dan an kai ban nawn lo, an aa thluh, an ti ve lala ding.
Cui thil herkual rero mi, ngaih um lo zet cu Alexander Pope in mawi zet in bezai ah a canter mi a si.
Cule, English thufim pakhat ah, "Santa Claus (Christmas Putar) hi a rak um taktak lo ti na theihfiang ciah ahcun nangmah kha Santa Claus țuantu ding na si zo," timi a um.
Suakthuan dinhmun, mah le mah rinsanawknak le fimawkternak a hung reh vivo ih leitlun thil um dan kan theihthiam vivo cin cun, "Aw, ka pa ih țong kha a rak dik sawn a si hi. Ka nu ih rel mi kha a rak țha sawn ngai," ti'n hmuhfiangawknak le sirawknak kan sarsuak kop.
Cumi ciah ihsi cun, "Hmmm.... tu cun leitlun thil um dan hi ka thei thok thlang. Upa sutron thiam ding, mino herhawi khal thiam ding a rak si," tiah kan ti țheu.
Asinan, kan kiangkap kan vun zoh tikah aa in ti ememtu kan fa le nau an rak um hliarhli ve zo țheu.
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31 July, 2018
Nu le Pa le Tu le Fa
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