The Painful Wail Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB BC DD CC EF GG HB IJ KKConsumed with grief I am I get relief in no way | A |
O circumambient waters of the Ganges drown me | B |
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Our land foments excessive mutual enmity | B |
What unity Our closeness harbors separation | C |
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Enmity instead of sincerity is outrageous | D |
Enmity among the same barn's grains is outrageous | D |
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If the brotherly breeze has not entered in a garden | C |
No pleasure can be derived from songs in that garden | C |
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Though I exceedingly love the real closeness | E |
I am upset by the mixing of waves and the shore | F |
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The miraculous poet is like the grain from the barn | G |
The grain has no existence if there is no barn | G |
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How can beauty unveil itself if no one is anxious for sight | H |
Lighting of the candle is meaningless if there is no assembly | B |
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Why does the taste for speech not change to silence | I |
Why does this brilliance not appear out from my mirror | J |
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Alas My tongue poured its speech down | K |
When war's fire had burnt the garden down | K |
Allama Muhammad Iqbal
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