The Candle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB BC DE FG HG IG JJ KL GM NL OP GG QQ RR OOSS TTGU VVWX YY AA ZA2 GI B2BYY C2D2D2 GG| O Candle I am also an afflicted person in the world assembly | A |
| Constant complaint is my lot in the manner of the rue | B |
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| Love gave the warmth of internal pathos to you | B |
| It made me the florist selling blood mixed tears | C |
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| Whether you be the candle of a celebrating assembly or one at the grave | D |
| In every condition associated with the tears of sorrow you remain | E |
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| Your eye views all with equity like the Secret's Lovers | F |
| My eye is the pride of the tumult of discrimination | G |
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| Your illumination is alike in the Ka'bah and the temple | H |
| I am entangled in the temple and the Haram's discrimination | G |
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| Your black smoke contains the sigh's elegance | I |
| Is some heart hidden in the place of your manifestation | G |
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| You burn with pathos due to distance from Tajalli's Light | J |
| Your pathos the callous ones consider your light | J |
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| Though you are burning you are unaware of it all | K |
| You see but do not encompass the internal pathos | L |
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| I quiver like mercury with the excitement of vexation | G |
| As well I am aware of vexations of the restless heart | M |
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| This was also the elegance of some Beloved | N |
| Which gave me perception of my own pathos | L |
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| This cognition of mine keeps me restless | O |
| Innumerable fire temples are asleep in this spark | P |
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| Discrimination between high and low is created by this alone | G |
| Fragrance in flower ecstasy in wine is created by this alone | G |
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| Garden nightingale flower fragrance this Cognition is | Q |
| Root of the struggle of I and you' this Cognition is | Q |
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| At creation's dawn as Beauty became the abode of Love | R |
| The sound of Kun taught warmth to the spirit of Love | R |
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| The command came Beauty of Kun's garden to witness | O |
| With one eye a thousand dreadful dreams to witness | O |
| Do not ask me of the nature of the veil of being | S |
| The eve of separation was the dawn of my being | S |
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| Gone are the days when unaware of imprisonment I was | T |
| That my abode the adornment of the tree of Tur was | T |
| I am a prisoner but consider the cage to be a garden | G |
| This exile's hovel of sorrow I consider the homeland | U |
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| Memories of the homeland a needless melancholy became | V |
| Now the desire for sight now Longing for search became | V |
| O Candle Look at the excessive illusion of thought | W |
| Look at the end of the one worshipped by celestial denizens | X |
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| Theme of separation I am the exalted one I am | Y |
| Design of the Will of the Universe's Lord I am | Y |
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| He desired my display as He designed me | A |
| When at the head of Existence' Divan He wrote me | A |
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| The pearl likes living in a handful of dust | Z |
| Style may be dull the subject is excellent | A2 |
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| Not seeing it rightly is the fault of shortsighted perception | G |
| The universe is the show of effulgence of taste for Cognizance | I |
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| This network of time and space is the scaling ladder of the Universe | B2 |
| It is the necklace of the neck of Eternal BeautyI | B |
| have lost the way Longing for the goal I am | Y |
| O Candle Captive of perception's illusion I am | Y |
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| I am the hunter as well as the circle of tyranny's net | C2 |
| I am the Haram's roof as well as the bird on Haram's roofAm I the Beauty or head to foot the melting love am I | D2 |
| It is not clear whether the beloved or the Lover am I | D2 |
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| am afraid the old secret may come up to my lips again | G |
| Lest story of suffering on the Cross may come up again | G |
Allama Muhammad Iqbal
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