If I Weep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFCCCGC| If I weep if I come with excuses my beloved puts cotton wool in his ears | A |
| Every cruelty which he commits becomes him every cruelty which he commits I endure | B |
| If he accounts me nonexistent I account his tyranny generosity | C |
| The cure of the ache of my heart is the ache for him how shall I not surrender my heart to his ache | D |
| Only then are glory and respect mine when his glorious love renders me contemptible | E |
| Only then does the vine of my body become wine when the wine presser stamps on me and spurns me underfoot | F |
| I yield my soul like grapes under the trampling that my secret heart may make merry | C |
| Though the grapes weep only blood for I am vexed with this cruelty and tyranny | C |
| He who pounds upon me puts cotton wool in his ears saying I do not press unwittingly | C |
| If you disbelieve you are excusable but I am the Abu l Hikam the expert in this affair | G |
| When you burst under the labor of my feet then you will render much thanks to me | C |
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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