The Himalayas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EE FB GB HD CE EE HI JE CE KL ME LB NN BB BO PP HB QE FE RE NN BE| O Himalah O rampart of the realm of India | A |
| Bowing down the sky kisses your forehead | B |
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| Your condition does not show any signs of old age | C |
| You are young in the midst of day and night's alternation | D |
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| The Kal m of r S n witnessed but one Effulgence | E |
| For the discerning eye you are an embodiment of Effulgence | E |
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| To the outward eye you are a mere mountain range | F |
| In reality you are our sentinel you are India's rampart | B |
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| You are the diwan whose opening verse is the sky | G |
| You lead Man to the solitudes of his heart's retreat | B |
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| Snow has endowed you with the turban of honour | H |
| Which scoffs at the crown of the world illuminating sun | D |
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| Antiquity is but a moment of your bygone age | C |
| Dark clouds are encamped in your valleys | E |
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| Your peaks are matching with the pleiades in elegance | E |
| Though you are standing on earth your abode is sky's expanse | E |
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| The stream in your flank is a fast flowing mirror | H |
| For which the breeze is working like a kerchief | I |
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| The mountain top's lightning has given a whip | J |
| In the hands of cloud for the ambling horse | E |
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| O Himalah Are you like a theater stage | C |
| Which nature's hand has made for its elements | E |
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| Ah How the cloud is swaying in excessive joy | K |
| The cloud like an unchained elephant is speeding | L |
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| Gentle movement of the morning zephyr is acting like a cradle | M |
| Every flower bud is swinging with intoxication of existence | E |
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| The flower bud's silence with the petal's tongue is saying | L |
| 'I have never experienced the jerk of the florist's hand | B |
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| Silence itself is relating the tale of mine | N |
| The corner of nature's solitude is the abode of mine' | N |
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| The brook is melodiously descending from the high land | B |
| Putting the waves of Kawthar and Tasn m to embarrassment | B |
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| As if showing the mirror to Nature's beauty | B |
| Now evading now rowing against the rock in its way | O |
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| Play in passing this orchestra of beautiful music | P |
| O wayfarer The heart comprehends your music | P |
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| When the night's Lailah unfurls her long hair | H |
| The sound of water falls allures the heart | B |
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| That silence of the night whose beauty surpasses speech | Q |
| That state of silent meditation overshadowing the trees | E |
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| That dusk's beauty which shivers along the mountain range | F |
| Very beautiful looks this rouge on your cheeks | E |
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| O Himalah Do relate to us some stories of the time | R |
| When your valleys became abode of Man's ancestors | E |
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| Relate something of the life without sophistication | N |
| Which had not been stained by the rouge of sophistication | N |
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| O Imagination Bring back that period | B |
| O Vicissitudes of Time speed backwards | E |
Allama Muhammad Iqbal
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