Ode 1957: An Intellectual Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDE FCG HI JKLM NK O O PF Q I RS TK UVTAn intellectual is all the time showing off | A |
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Lovers dissolve and become bewildered | B |
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Intellectuals try not to drown | C |
while the whole purpose of loves | D |
is drowning | E |
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Intellectual invent | F |
ways to rest and then lie down | C |
in those beds | G |
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Lovers feel ashamed | H |
of comforting ideas | I |
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You ve seen a glob | J |
of oil on water That s how a lover | K |
sits with intellectuals there but alone | L |
in a circle of himself | M |
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Some intellectual | N |
tries to give sound advice to a lover | K |
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All he hears back is I love you | O |
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I love you | O |
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Love is musk Don t deny it | P |
when you smell the scent | F |
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Love is a tree | Q |
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Lovers the shade of the long branches | I |
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To the intellectual mind a child must learn | R |
to grow up and be adult | S |
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In the station of love | T |
you see old men getting younger and younger | K |
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Shams chose to live low in the roots | U |
for you So now he soars in the air | V |
as you sublimely articulating love | T |
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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