Rubà¡iyà¡t Of Omar Khayyà¡m Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCB AAADA AEEFE GHIH HHHH JJHJ KKFK FFHF H CCLC H JJJJ H IIHJ H MMNM H OOHO JJHJ JJPJ OFQF RRHR SSHS H JJHJ H HHHH H NNON H TTUT H VV V OOHO WWJW HHHH XXOY HOZO H KKA2K H HHJH H B2B2C2B2 H HHHH H D2D2E2D2 JJ J F2 FFG2F H2H2FH2 A2A2JA2 H I2I2J2I2 F HHSH F JJOJ F J2K| I | A |
| AWAKE for Morning in the Bowl of Night | B |
| Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight | B |
| And Lo the Hunter of the East has caught | C |
| The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light | B |
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| II | A |
| Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky | A |
| I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry | A |
| Awake my Little ones and fill the Cup | D |
| Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry | A |
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| III | A |
| And as the Cock crew those who stood before | E |
| The Tavern shouted Open then the Door | E |
| You know how little while we have to stay | F |
| And once departed may return no more | E |
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| IV | - |
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| Now the New Year reviving old Desires | G |
| The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires | H |
| Where the WHITE HAND OF MOSES on the Bough | I |
| Puts out and Jesus from the Ground suspires | H |
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| V | - |
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| Ir m indeed is gone with all its Rose | H |
| And Jamsh 'y d's Sev'n ring'd Cup where no one knows | H |
| But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields | H |
| And still a Garden by the Water blows | H |
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| VI | - |
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| And David's Lips are lock't but in divine | J |
| High piping Pehlev with Wine Wine Wine | J |
| Red Wine the Nightingale cries to the Rose | H |
| That yellow Cheek of hers to' incarnadine | J |
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| VII | - |
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| Come fill the Cup and in the Fire of Spring | K |
| The Winter Garment of Repentance fling | K |
| The Bird of Time has but a little way | F |
| To fly and Lo the Bird is on the Wing | K |
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| VIII | - |
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| And look a thousand Blossoms with the Day | F |
| Woke and a thousand scatter'd into Clay | F |
| And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose | H |
| Shall take Jamsh 'y d and Kaikob d away | F |
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| IX | H |
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| But come with old Khayy m and leave the Lot | C |
| Of Kaikob d and Kaikhosr forgot | C |
| Let Rustum lay about him as he will | L |
| Or H tim Tai cry Supper heed them not | C |
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| X | H |
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| With me along some Strip of Herbage strown | J |
| That just divides the desert from the sown | J |
| Where name of Slave and Sult n scarce is known | J |
| And pity Sult n Mahm d on his Throne | J |
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| XI | H |
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| Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough | I |
| A Flask of Wine a Book of Verse and Thou | I |
| Beside me singing in the Wilderness | H |
| And Wilderness is Paradise enow | J |
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| XII | H |
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| How sweet is mortal Sovranty think some | M |
| Others How blest the Paradise to come | M |
| Ah take the Cash in hand and wave the Rest | N |
| Oh the brave Music of a distant Drum | M |
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| XIII | H |
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| Look to the Rose that blows about us Lo | O |
| Laughing she says into the World I blow | O |
| At once the silken Tassel of my Purse | H |
| Tear and its Treasure on the Garden throw | O |
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| XIV | - |
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| The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon | J |
| Turns Ashes or it prospers and anon | J |
| Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face | H |
| Lighting a little Hour or two is gone | J |
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| XV | - |
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| And those who husbanded the Golden Grain | J |
| And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain | J |
| Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd | P |
| As buried once Men want dug up again | J |
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| XVI | - |
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| Think in this batter'd Caravanserai | O |
| Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day | F |
| How Sult n after Sult n with his Pomp | Q |
| Abode his Hour or two and went his way | F |
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| XVII | - |
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| They say the Lion and the Lizard keep | R |
| The Courts where Jamsh 'y d gloried and drank deep | R |
| And Bahr m that great Hunter the Wild Ass | H |
| Stamps o'er his Head and he lies fast asleep | R |
| XVIII | - |
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| I sometimes think that never blows so red | S |
| The Rose as where some buried C sar bled | S |
| That every Hyacinth the Garden wears | H |
| Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head | S |
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| XIX | H |
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| And this delightful Herb whose tender Green | J |
| Fledges the River's Lip on which we lean | J |
| Ah lean upon it lightly for who knows | H |
| From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen | J |
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| XX | H |
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| Ah my Beloved fill the Cup that clears | H |
| TO DAY of past Regrets and future Fears | H |
| To morrow Why To morrow I may be | H |
| Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years | H |
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| XXI | H |
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| Lo some we lov'd the loveliest and best | N |
| That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest | N |
| Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before | O |
| And one by one crept silently to Rest | N |
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| XXII | H |
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| And we that now make merry in the Room | T |
| They left and Summer dresses in new Bloom | T |
| Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth | U |
| Descend ourselves to make a Couch for whom | T |
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| XXIII | H |
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| Ah make the most of what we yet may spend | V |
| Before we too into the Dust descend | V |
| Dust into Dust and under Dust to lie | - |
| Sans Wine sans Song sans Singer and sans End | V |
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| XXIV | - |
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| Alike for those who for TO DAY prepare | O |
| And those that after a TO MORROW stare | O |
| A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries | H |
| Fools your Reward is neither Here nor There | O |
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| XXV | - |
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| Why all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd | W |
| Of the Two Worlds so learnedly are thrust | W |
| Like foolish Prophets forth their Words to Scorn | J |
| Are scatter'd and their Mouths are stopt with Dust | W |
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| XXVI | - |
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| Oh come with old Khayy m and leave the Wise | H |
| To talk one thing is certain that Life flies | H |
| One thing is certain and the Rest is Lies | H |
| The Flower that once has blown for ever dies | H |
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| XXVII | - |
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| Myself when young did eagerly frequent | X |
| Doctor and Saint and heard great Argument | X |
| About it and about but evermore | O |
| Came out by the same Door as in I went | Y |
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| XXVIII | - |
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| With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow | H |
| And with my own hand labour'd it to grow | O |
| And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd | Z |
| I came like Water and like Wind I go | O |
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| XXIX | H |
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| Into this Universe and why not knowing | K |
| Nor whence like Water willy nilly flowing | K |
| And out of it as Wind along the Waste | A2 |
| I know not whither willy nilly blowing | K |
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| XXX | H |
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| What without asking hither hurried whence | H |
| And without asking whither hurried hence | H |
| Another and another Cup to drown | J |
| The Memory of this Impertinence | H |
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| XXXI | H |
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| Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate | B2 |
| I rose and on the Throne of Saturn sate | B2 |
| And many Knots unravel'd by the Road | C2 |
| But not the Knot of Human Death and Fate | B2 |
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| XXXII | H |
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| There was a Door to which I found no Key | H |
| There was a Veil past which I could not see | H |
| Some little Talk awhile of ME and THEE | H |
| There seem'd and then no more of THEE and ME | H |
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| XXXIII | H |
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| Then to the rolling Heav'n itself I cried | D2 |
| Asking What Lamp had Destiny to guide | D2 |
| Her little Children stumbling in the Dark | E2 |
| And A blind Understanding Heav'n replied | D2 |
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| XXXIV | - |
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| Then to this earthen Bowl did I adjourn | J |
| My Lip the secret Well of Life to learn | J |
| And Lip to Lip it murmur'd While you live | - |
| Drink for once dead you never shall return | J |
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| XXXV | - |
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| I think the Vessel that with fugitive | - |
| Articulation answer'd once did live | - |
| And merry make and the cold Lip I kiss'd | F2 |
| How many Kisses might it take and give | - |
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| XXXVI | - |
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| For in the Market place one Dusk of Day | F |
| I watch'd the Potter thumping his wet Clay | F |
| And with its all obliterated Tongue | G2 |
| It murmur'd Gently Brother gently pray | F |
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| XXXVII | - |
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| Ah fill the Cup what boots it to repeat | H2 |
| How Time is slipping underneath our Feet | H2 |
| Unborn TO MORROW and dead YESTERDAY | F |
| Why fret about them if TO DAY be sweet | H2 |
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| XXXVIII | - |
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| One Moment in Annihilation's Waste | A2 |
| One Moment of the Well of Life to taste | A2 |
| The Stars are setting and the Caravan | J |
| Starts for the Dawn of Nothing Oh make haste | A2 |
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| XXXIX | H |
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| How long how long in infinite Pursuit | I2 |
| Of This and That endeavour and dispute | I2 |
| Better be merry with the fruitful Grape | J2 |
| Than sadden after none or bitter Fruit | I2 |
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| XL | F |
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| You know my Friends how long since in my House | H |
| For a new Marriage I did make Carouse | H |
| Divorc'd old barren Reason from my Bed | S |
| And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse | H |
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| XLI | F |
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| For Is and IS NOT though with Rule and Line | J |
| And UP AND DOWN without I could define | J |
| I yet in all I only cared to know | O |
| Was never deep in anything but Wine | J |
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| XLII | F |
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| And lately by the Tavern Door agape | J2 |
| Came stealing | K |
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