Rise, Lovers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFCGHFIJFK LM| Rise lovers that we may go towards heaven we have seen this world so let us go to that world | A |
| No no for thought these two gardens are beautiful and fair let us pass beyond these two and go to that Gardener | B |
| Let us go prostrating to the sea like a torrent then let us go foaming upon the face of the sea | C |
| Let us journey from this street of mourning to the wedding feast let us go from this saffron face to the face of the Judas tree blossom | D |
| Trembling like a leaf and twig from fear of falling our hearts are throbbing let us go to the Abode of Security | C |
| There is no escape from pain since we are in exile and there is no escape from dust seeing that we are going to a dustbowl | E |
| Like parrots green of wing and with fine pinions let us become sugar gatherers and go to the sugar bed | F |
| These forms are signs of the signless fashioner hidden from the evil eye come let us go to the signless | C |
| It is a road full of tribulation but love is the guide giving us instruction how we should go thereon | G |
| Though the shadow of the king s grace surely protects yet it is better that on that road we go with the caravan | H |
| We are like rain falling on a leaky roof let us spring from the leak and go by that waterspout | F |
| We are crooked as a bow for the string is in our own throats when we become straight then we will go like an arrow from the bow | I |
| We cower like mice in the house because of the cats if we are lion s whelps let us go to that Lion | J |
| Let us make our soul a mirror in passion for a Joseph let us go before Joseph s beauty with a present | F |
| Let us be silent that the giver of speech may say this even as he shall say so let us go | K |
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| Street of Mourning The world which has been called by many similar names such as the infidel s paradise and symbolized by the false dawn a carcass a bath stove and a tomb Cf World in Nicholson s index to Math | M |
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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