Paradise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGG GHGI EHJK HHLG MNOP QMRE GSTG QUQE V| Paradise my darling know that paradise | A |
| The Prophet given paradise after death | B |
| Is far and very mysterious and most high | C |
| My habits would be upset in such a place | D |
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| Without impiety I should be mortally weary | E |
| If I went there alone without my wife | F |
| An ugly crowding of inferior females | G |
| What should I do with the houris | G |
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| What should I do with those tall loaded fruit trees | G |
| Seeing I could not give the fruit to you | H |
| What by the freshness of those blue streams | G |
| Seeing my face reflected there alone | I |
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| And it might be worse if you came with me | E |
| For all of Allah's Chosen would desire you | H |
| And if Mahomet threw his handkerchief | J |
| And took you up and loved you for himself | K |
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| Eyes of my eyes how could I then defend you | H |
| I could not be at ease and watch him love you | H |
| And if I mutinied against the Prophet | L |
| He being zealous to love you in his peace | G |
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| Would rise and send me hurrying | M |
| Back by the sword blade thinness of the bridge | N |
| From paradise to earth and in the middle | O |
| Flick me down sideways to the fires of hell | P |
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| My skin would cook and be renewed for ever | Q |
| Where murderers were burning and renewing | M |
| And evil souls my only crime being love | R |
| Would burn me and annoy me and destroy me | E |
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| If I were there and you in paradise | G |
| I could not even make my prayer to Allah | S |
| That in his justice he should give me back | T |
| My paradise | G |
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| Let us love therefore on the earth together | Q |
| Our love is our garden let us take great care | U |
| Whisper and call pet names and kiss each other | Q |
| To live our paradise as long as may be | E |
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| Love Ballad of Kurdistan | V |
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