Sleep Of The Body The Soul's Awakening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAFEGHIDJKLHLLJM ML| Every night Thou freest our spirits from the body | A |
| And its snare making them pure as rased tablets | B |
| Every night spirits are released from this cage | C |
| And set free neither lording it nor lorded over | D |
| At night prisoners are unaware of their prison | E |
| At night kings are unaware of their majesty | A |
| Then there is no thought or care for loss or gain | F |
| No regard to such an one or such an one | E |
| The state of the 'Knower' is such as this even when awake | G |
| God says 'Thou wouldst deem him awake though asleep | H |
| Sleeping to the affairs of the world day and night | I |
| Like a pen in the directing hand of the writer | D |
| He who sees not the hand which effects the writing | J |
| Fancies the effect proceeds from the motion of the pen | K |
| If the 'Knower' revealed the particulars of this state | L |
| 'Twould rob the vulgar of their sensual sleep | H |
| His soul wanders in the desert that has no similitude | L |
| Like his body his spirit is enjoying perfect rest | L |
| Freed from desire of eating and drinking | J |
| Like a bird escaped from cage and snare | M |
| But when he is again beguiled into the snare | M |
| He cries for help to the Almighty | L |
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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