When I Die Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJ HKIIL HMANOP HMQRGS RTUVK WXYQO WZHA2B2Z C2D2A2LC2| When I die | A |
| when my coffin | B |
| is being taken out | C |
| you must never think | D |
| i am missing this world | E |
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| don't shed any tears | F |
| don't lament or | G |
| feel sorry | H |
| i'm not falling | I |
| into a monster's abyss | J |
| - | |
| when you see | H |
| my corpse is being carried | K |
| don't cry for my leaving | I |
| i'm not leaving | I |
| i'm arriving at eternal love | L |
| - | |
| when you leave me | H |
| in the grave | M |
| don't say goodbye | A |
| remember a grave is | N |
| only a curtain | O |
| for the paradise behind | P |
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| you'll only see me | H |
| descending into a grave | M |
| now watch me rise | Q |
| how can there be an end | R |
| when the sun sets or | G |
| the moon goes down | S |
| - | |
| it looks like the end | R |
| it seems like a sunset | T |
| but in reality it is a dawn | U |
| when the grave locks you up | V |
| that is when your soul is freed | K |
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| have you ever seen | W |
| a seed fallen to earth | X |
| not rise with a new life | Y |
| why should you doubt the rise | Q |
| of a seed named human | O |
| - | |
| have you ever seen | W |
| a bucket lowered into a well | Z |
| coming back empty | H |
| why lament for a soul | A2 |
| when it can come back | B2 |
| like Joseph from the well | Z |
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| when for the last time | C2 |
| you close your mouth | D2 |
| your words and soul | A2 |
| will belong to the world of | L |
| no place no time | C2 |
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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