The Rubaiyat Of Rumi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA CCDD AADD AEAE FAFA AADD GHD A IF DDF GFIF JAGA AKAK ADAD DDDD AALL MNMN DDDD OLOL AAAA KKNP AKQQ RRSS AAAA KKAA DDAA TDTD KAKA AEAE ADAD| Time bringeth swift to end | A |
| The rout men keep | B |
| Death's wolf is nigh to rend | A |
| These silly sheep | B |
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| See how in pride they go | C |
| With lifted head | A |
| Till Fate with a sudden blow | C |
| Smiteth them dead | A |
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| Thou who lovest life a crow | C |
| Winter's chill and winter's snow | C |
| Ever exiled from the vale's | D |
| Roses red and nightingales | D |
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| Take this moment to thy heart | A |
| When the moment shall depart | A |
| Long thou lt seek it as it flies | D |
| With a hundred lamps and eyes | D |
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| The heavenly rider passed | A |
| The dust rose in the air | E |
| He sped but the dust he cast | A |
| Yet hangeth there | E |
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| Straight forward thy vision be | F |
| And gaze not left or night | A |
| His dust is here and he | F |
| In the Infinite | A |
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| Who was he that said | A |
| The immortal spirit is dead | A |
| Or how dared he say | D |
| Hope's sun hath passed away | D |
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| An enemy of the sun | G |
| Standing his roof upon | H |
| Bound up both his eyes | D |
| And cried Lo the sun dies ' | - |
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| Who lifteth up the spirit | A |
| Say who is he ' | - |
| Who gave in the beginning | I |
| This life to me | F |
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| Who hoodeth life a falcon's | D |
| Awhile mine eyes | D |
| But presently shall loose me | F |
| To hunt my prize ' | - |
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| As salt resolved in the ocean | G |
| I was swallowed in God's sea | F |
| Past faith past unbelieving | I |
| Past doubt past certainty | F |
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| Suddenly in my bosom | J |
| A star shone clear and bright | A |
| All the suns of heaven | G |
| Vanished in that star's light | A |
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| Flowers every night | A |
| Blossom in the sky | K |
| Peace in the Infinite | A |
| At peace am I | K |
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| Sighs a hundredfold | A |
| From my heart arise | D |
| My heart dark and cold | A |
| Flames with my sighs | D |
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| He that is my souls' repose | D |
| Round my heart encircling goes | D |
| Round my heart and soul of bliss | D |
| He encircling is | D |
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| Laughing from my earthy bed | A |
| Like a tree I lift my head | A |
| For the Fount of Living mirth | L |
| Washes round my earth | L |
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| The breeze of the morn | M |
| Scatters musk in its train | N |
| Fragrance borne | M |
| From my fair love's lane | N |
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| Ere the world wastes | D |
| Sleep no more arise | D |
| The caravan hastes | D |
| The sweet scent dies | D |
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| If life be gone fresh life to you | O |
| God offereth | L |
| A life eternal to renew | O |
| This life of death | L |
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| The Fount of Immorality | A |
| In Love is found | A |
| The come and in this boundless sea | A |
| Of Love be drowned | A |
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| Happy was I | K |
| In the pearl's heart to lie | K |
| Till lashed by life's hurricane | N |
| Life a tossed wave I ran | P |
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| The secret of the sea | A |
| I uttered thunderously | K |
| Like a spent cloud on the shore | Q |
| I slept and stirred no more | Q |
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| He set the world aflame | R |
| And laid me on the same | R |
| A hundred tongues of fire | S |
| Lapped round my pyre | S |
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| And when the blazing tide | A |
| Engulfed me and I sighed | A |
| Upon my mouth in haste | A |
| His hand He placed | A |
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| Though every way I try | K |
| His whim to satisfy | K |
| His every answering word | A |
| Is a pointed sword | A |
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| See how the blood drips | D |
| From His finger tips | D |
| Why does He find it good | A |
| To wash in my blood | A |
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| Remembering Thy lip | T |
| The ruby red I kiss | D |
| Having not that to sip | T |
| My lips press this | D |
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| Not to Thy far sky | K |
| Reaches my stretched hand | A |
| Wherefore kneeling I | K |
| Embrace the land | A |
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| I sought a soul in the sea | A |
| And found a coral there | E |
| Beneath the foam for me | A |
| An ocean was all laid bare | E |
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| Into my heart's night | A |
| Along a narrow way | D |
| I groped and lo the light | A |
| An infinite land of day | D |
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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