My Mother Was Fortune, My Father Generosity And Bounty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGCHIHJBKELHMFN CO| My mother was fortune my father generosity and bounty I | A |
| am joy son of joy son of joy son of joy | B |
| Behold the Marquis of Glee has attainted felicity this city and | C |
| plain are filled with soldiers and drums and flags | D |
| If I encounter a wolf he becomes moonfaced Joseph if I go | E |
| down into a well it converts into a Garden of Eram | F |
| He whose heart is as iron and stone out of miserliness is now | G |
| changed before me into a Hatem of the age in generosity and | C |
| bounty | H |
| Dust becomes gold and pure silver in my hand how then | I |
| should the temptation of gold and silver waylay me | H |
| I have an idol such that were his sweet scent scattered | J |
| abroad even an idol of stone would receive life through joy | B |
| Sorrow has died for joy in him of may God bind your consolation | K |
| how should not such a sword strike the neck of sorrow | E |
| By tyranny he seizes the soul of whom he desires justices are | L |
| all slaves of such injustice and tyranny | H |
| What is that mole on that face Should it manifest itself out | M |
| of desire for it forthwith maternal aunt would be estranged from | F |
| paternal uncle | N |
| I said If I am done and send my story will you finish it and | C |
| expound it He answered Yes | O |
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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