The Time Before Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABC AD EFGHIJCKD LM NOP GFriend 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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