The Time Before Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABC AD EFGHIJCKD LM NOP G| Friend hope for the Guest while you are alive | A |
| Jump into experience while you are alive | A |
| Think and think while you are alive | A |
| What you call 'salvation' belongs to the time | B |
| before death | C |
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| If you don't break your ropes while you're alive | A |
| do you think ghosts will do it after | D |
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| The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic | E |
| just because the body is rotten | F |
| that is all fantasy | G |
| What is found now is found then | H |
| If you find nothing now | I |
| you will simply end up with an apartment in the | J |
| City of Death | C |
| If you make love with the divine now in the next | K |
| life you will have the face of satisfied desire | D |
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| So plunge into the truth find out who the Teacher is | L |
| Believe in the Great Sound | M |
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| Kabir says this When the Guest is being searched for | N |
| it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest | O |
| that does all the work | P |
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| Look at me and you will see a slave of that intensity | G |
Kabir
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