Reason Says Love Says Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGHIJKLHMNOJPF LQRSLETUVEW| Reason says I will beguile him with the tongue Love says | A |
| Be silent I will beguile him with the soul | B |
| The soul says to the heart Go do not laugh at me and yourself | C |
| What is there that is not his that I may beguile him | D |
| thereby | E |
| He is not sorrowful and anxious and seeking oblivion that I | E |
| may beguile him with wine and a heavy measure | F |
| The arrow of his glance needs not a bow that I should beguile | G |
| the shaft of his gaze with a bow | H |
| He is not prisoner of the world fettered to this world of earth | I |
| that I should beguile him with gold of the kingdom of the world | J |
| He is an angel though in form he is a man he is not lustful | K |
| that I should beguile him with women | L |
| Angels start away from the house wherein this form is so how | H |
| should I beguile him with such a form and likeness | M |
| He does not take a flock of horses since he flies on wings his | N |
| food is light so how should I beguile him with bread | O |
| He is not a merchant and trafficker in the market of the world | J |
| that I should beguile him with enchantment of grain and loss | P |
| He is not veiled that I should make myself out sick and utter | F |
| sighs to beguile him with lamentation | L |
| I will bind my head and bow my head for I have got out of | Q |
| hand I will not beguile his compassion with sickness or fluttering | R |
| Hair by hair he sees my crookedness and feigning what s | S |
| hidden from him that I should beguile him with anything hidden | L |
| He is not a seeker of fame a prince addicted to poets that I | E |
| should beguile him with verses and lyrics and flowing poetry | T |
| The glory of the unseen form is too great for me to beguile it | U |
| with blessing or Paradise | V |
| Shams e Tabriz who is his chosen and beloved perchance I | E |
| will beguile him with this same pole of the age | W |
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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