Song Of Fortune Vi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHEI JKGGLG MNGOG PGDQR GGI GSEG DDGDGTIUVO GWG GGD DXYM ZA2OB2GUG XB| Man and I are sweethearts | A |
| He craves me and I long for him | B |
| But alas Between us has appeared | C |
| A rival who brings us misery | D |
| She is cruel and demanding | E |
| Possessing empty lure | F |
| Her name is Substance | G |
| She follows wherever we go | H |
| And watches like a sentinel bringing | E |
| Restlessness to my lover | I |
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| I ask for my beloved in the forest | J |
| Under the trees by the lakes | K |
| I cannot find him for Substance | G |
| Has spirited him to the clamorous | G |
| City and placed him on the throne | L |
| Of quaking metal riches | G |
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| I call for him with the voice of | M |
| Knowledge and the song of Wisdom | N |
| He does not hearken for Substance | G |
| Has enticed him into the dungeon | O |
| Of selfishness where avarice dwells | G |
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| I seek him in the field of Contentment | P |
| But I am alone for my rival has | G |
| Imprisoned him in the cave of gluttony | D |
| And greed and locked him there | Q |
| With painful chains of gold | R |
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| I call to him at dawn when Nature smiles | G |
| But he does not hear for excess has | G |
| Laden his drugged eyes with sick slumber | I |
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| I beguile him at eventide when Silence rules | G |
| And the flowers sleep But he responds not | S |
| For his fear over what the morrow will Bring | E |
| shadows his thoughts | G |
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| He yearns to love me | D |
| He asks for me in this own acts But he | D |
| Will find me not except in God's acts | G |
| He seeks me in the edifices of his glory | D |
| Which he has built upon the bones of others | G |
| He whispers to me from among | T |
| His heaps of gold and silver | I |
| But he will find me only by coming to | U |
| The house of Simplicity which God has built | V |
| At the brink of the stream of affection | O |
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| He desires to kiss me before his coffers | G |
| But his lips will never touch mine except | W |
| In the richness of the pure breeze | G |
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| He asks me to share with him his | G |
| Fabulous wealth but I will not forsake God's | G |
| Fortune I will not cast off my cloak of beauty | D |
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| He seeks deceit for medium I seek only | D |
| The medium of his heart | X |
| He bruises his heart in his narrow cell | Y |
| I would enrich his heart with all my love | M |
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| My beloved has learned how to shriek and | Z |
| Cry for my enemy Substance I would | A2 |
| Teach him how to shed tears of affection | O |
| And mercy from the eyes of his soul | B2 |
| For all things | G |
| And utter sighs of contentment through | U |
| Those tears | G |
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| Man is my sweetheart | X |
| I want to belong to him | B |
Khalil Gibran
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