Looking At The Grinding Stones - Dohas (couplets) I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CC CC DD EC CB FG CC HH II CJ| Looking at the grinding stones Kabir laments | A |
| In the duel of wheels nothing stays intact | B |
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| searching for the wicked met not a single one | C |
| When searched myself 'I' found the wicked one | C |
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| Tomorrows work do today today's work anon | C |
| if the moment is lost when will the work be done | C |
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| Speak such words sans ego's ploy | D |
| Body remains composed giving the listener joy | D |
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| Slowly slowly O mind everything in own pace happens | E |
| Gardner may water a hundred buckets fruit arrives only in its season | C |
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| Give so much O God suffice to envelop my clan | C |
| I should not suffer cravings nor the visitor goes unfed | B |
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| In vain is the eminence just like a date tree | F |
| No shade for travelers fruit is hard to reach | G |
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| Like seed contains the oil fire in flint stone | C |
| Your heart seats the Divine realize if you can | C |
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| Kabira in the market place wishes welfare of all | H |
| Neither friendship nor enmity with anyone at all | H |
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| Reading books everyone died none became any wise | I |
| One who reads the words of Love only becomes wise | I |
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| In anguish everyone prays to Him in joy does none | C |
| To One who prays in happiness how sorrow can come | J |
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