Lamps Burn In Every House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDF GH I AJDK LMLamps burn in every house | A |
O blind one and you cannot see them | B |
One day your eyes shall suddenly be opened | C |
and you shall see and the fetters of death will fall from you | D |
There is nothing to say or to hear | E |
there is nothing to do | D |
it is he who is living yet dead who shall never die again | F |
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Because he lives in solitude | G |
therefore the Yogi says that his home is far away | H |
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Your Lord is near yet you are climbing the palm tree to seek Him | I |
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The Brahman priest goes from house to house | A |
and initiates people into faith | J |
Alas the true fountain of life is beside you | D |
and you have set up a stone to worship | K |
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Kab r says 'I may never express how sweet my Lord is | L |
Yoga and the telling of beads | M |
virtue and vice these are naught to Him ' | - |
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