Strange Is The Path When You Offer Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAD AEFGHIJKLMNOHHP JQRDo not mention the name of love | A |
O my simple minded companion | B |
Strange is the path | C |
When you offer your love | A |
Your body is crushed at the first step | D |
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If you want to offer love | A |
Be prepared to cut off your head | E |
And sit on it | F |
Be like the moth | G |
Which circles the lamp and offers its body | H |
Be like the deer which on hearing the horn | I |
Offers its head to the hunter | J |
Be like the partridge | K |
Which swallows burning coals | L |
In love of the moon | M |
Be like the fish | N |
Which yields up its life | O |
When separated from the sea | H |
Be like the bee | H |
Entrapped in the closing petals of the lotus | P |
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Mira's lord is the courtly Giridhara | J |
She says Offer your mind | Q |
To those lotus feet | R |
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