When You Were Born In This World - Dohas Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EE FGHI JKLM NOPQ RR ESTUD ESVWX ELYZA2 B2BC2B TNGB2| When you were born in this world | A |
| Everyone laughed while you cried | B |
| Conduct NOT yourself in manner such | C |
| That they laugh when you are gone | D |
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| Kabir's mind got cleansed like the holy Ganges water | E |
| Now everyone follows saying Kabir Kabir | E |
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| Guru the washer man disciple is the cloth | F |
| The name of God liken to the soap | G |
| Wash the mind on foundation firm | H |
| To realize the glow of Truth | I |
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| Alive one sees alive one knows | J |
| Thus crave for salvation when full of life | K |
| Alive you did not cut the noose of binding actions | L |
| Hoping liberation with death | M |
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| Inexpressible is the story of Love | N |
| It cannot be revealed by words | O |
| Like the dumb eating sweet meat | P |
| Only smiles the sweetness he cannot tell | Q |
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| Worry is the bandit that eats into one's heart | R |
| What the doctor can do what remedy to impart | R |
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| Says Kabir | E |
| Don't be so proud and vain | S |
| Looking at your high mansion | T |
| Death makes one lie on bare land | U |
| And grass will grow thereon | D |
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| Says Kabir | E |
| Don't be so proud and vain | S |
| The clutches of Time are dark | V |
| Who knows where shall it kill | W |
| Whether at home or abroad | X |
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| Says Kabir | E |
| By my doing nothing happens | L |
| What I don't does come to pass | Y |
| If anything happens as if my doing | Z |
| Then truly it is done by someone else | A2 |
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| Like the pupil in the eyes | B2 |
| The Lord resides inside | B |
| Ignorant do not know this fact | C2 |
| They search Him outside | B |
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| First the pangs of separation | T |
| Next grows the thirst for Love | N |
| Says Kabir then only hope | G |
| The union to materialize | B2 |
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