Give Me The Flute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLABHDAMHN OJPQRASTCDAUHLHVHWXH YZHA2HAB2C2| Give 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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