Description Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDDEFGHIDJKLMNOP QRMSTNNNOT| A true lover is proved such by his pain of heart | A |
| No sickness is there like sickness of heart | A |
| The lover's ailment is different from all ailments | B |
| Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries | C |
| A lover may hanker after this love or that love | D |
| But at the last he is drawn to the KING of love | D |
| However much we describe and explain love | D |
| When we fall in love we are ashamed of our words | E |
| Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear | F |
| But love unexplained is clearer | G |
| When pen hasted to write | H |
| On reaching the subject of love it split in twain | I |
| When the discourse touched on the matter of love | D |
| Pen was broken and paper torn | J |
| In explaining it Reason sticks fast as an ass in mire | K |
| Naught but Love itself can explain love and lovers | L |
| None but the sun can display the sun | M |
| If you would see it displayed turn not away from it | N |
| Shadows indeed may indicate the sun's presence | O |
| But only the sun displays the light of life | P |
| Shadows induce slumber like evening talks | Q |
| But when the sun arises the 'moon is split asunder ' | R |
| In the world there is naught so wondrous as the sun | M |
| But the Sun of the soul sets not and has no yesterday | S |
| Though the material sun is unique and single | T |
| We can conceive similar suns like to it | N |
| But the Sun of the soul beyond this firmament | N |
| No like thereof is seen in concrete or abstract | N |
| Where is there room in conception for His essence | O |
| So that similitudes of HIM should be conceivable | T |
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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