Ghazal Of Isa Akhun Zada Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEABAA FGEHIAJAA KHALMMAA CAINAAAAA A| Beauty with the flame shawl do not repulse me | A |
| Breathing idol of rose ivory look at me | A |
| Beauty with the flame shawl let me say a little thing | B |
| Lend your small ears to my quick sighing | B |
| Breathing idol I have come to the walls of death | C |
| And there are coloured cures behind the crystal of your eyes | D |
| Life is a tale ill constructed without love | E |
| Beauty of the flame shawl do not repulse me | A |
| I am at your door wasted and white and dying | B |
| Breathing idol of rose ivory look at me | A |
| Beauty with the flame shawl do not repulse me | A |
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| This is the salaam that slaves make and after the salaam | F |
| Listen to these quick sighings and their wisdom | G |
| All the world has spied on us and seen our love | E |
| And in four days or five days will be whispering evil | H |
| Knot your robes in a turban escape and be mine for ever | I |
| Beauty with the flame shawl do not repulse me | A |
| After that we will both of us go to prison | J |
| Breathing idol of rose ivory look at me | A |
| Beauty with the flame shawl do not repulse me | A |
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| My quick sighings carry a tender promise | K |
| I will have time to remember in the battle | H |
| Though all the world is a thousand whistling swords against me | A |
| The iron is still in the rock that shall forge my death sword | L |
| Though I have foes more than the stars | M |
| Of a thousand valley starlights | M |
| Breathing idol of rose ivory look at me | A |
| Beauty with the flame shawl do not repulse me | A |
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| I am as strong as Sikander I am as strong as death | C |
| You will hear me come with guns brooding behind me | A |
| And laughing bloody battalions following after | I |
| Isa Gal is stronger than God | N |
| Do not whip me do not whip me | A |
| Beauty with the flame shawl do not repulse me | A |
| Breathing idol of rose ivory look at me | A |
| Breathing idol of rose ivory look at me | A |
| Beauty with the flame shawl do not repulse me | A |
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| From the Pus'hto Afghans nineteenth century | A |
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