Give Me The Flute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLABHDAMHN OJPQRASTCDAUHLHVHWXH YZHA2HAB2C2Give me the flute and sing | A |
immortality lies in a song | B |
and even after we've perished | C |
the flute continues to lament | D |
have you taken refuge in the woods | E |
away from places like me | F |
followed streams on their courses | G |
and climbed up the rocks | H |
Did you ever bathe in a perfume | I |
and dry yourself with a light | J |
drink the dawn as wine | K |
rarefied in goblets of ether | L |
give me the flute then and sing | A |
the best of prayer is song | B |
and even when life perishes | H |
the flute continues to lament | D |
have you spent an evening | A |
as I have done | M |
among vines | H |
where the golden candelabra | N |
clusters hang down | O |
did you sleep on the grass at night | J |
and let space be your blanket | P |
abstaining from all that will come | Q |
forgetful of all that has passed | R |
give the flute then and sing | A |
in singing is Justice for the heart | S |
and even after every guilt | T |
has perished | C |
the flute continues to lament | D |
give the flute and sing | A |
forget illness and its cure | U |
people are nothing but lines | H |
which are scribbled on water | L |
They all are but the tunnels of moles | H |
threads in the spider's web | V |
For he who lives in weakness | H |
slowly he will die | W |
Forest is the abode of life | X |
and were the days | H |
gathered in my hand | Y |
there would i strew them | Z |
but time it is that chooses | H |
from my soul whenever i long for | A2 |
forest time bars my way woth excuse | H |
the fates have ways unaltering | A |
and men's aims are | B2 |
beyond their impotent reach | C2 |
Khalil Gibran
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