This Was Not Our Destiny Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EF GH IH JK L M HN OP QR SH| This was not our destiny that union with the beloved would take place | A |
| If we had kept on living longer then would have been kept waiting | B |
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| If I lived on your promise then know this that I knew it to be false | C |
| For would I not have died of happiness if I had had trust in it | D |
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| From your delicacy I knew that the vow had been bound loosely | E |
| You could never have broken it if it had been firm | F |
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| Let someone ask my heart about your half drawn arrow | G |
| Where would this anxiety pain have come from if it had gone through the liver | H |
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| What kind of friendship is this that friends have become Advisors | I |
| If someone had been a healer if someone had been a sympathizer | H |
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| From the rock vein would drip that blood which would never have stopped | J |
| If this which you are considering 'grief' this were just a spark | K |
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| Although grief is life threatening how would we escape while there is a heart | L |
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| If there were not the grief of passion there would be the grief of livelihood | M |
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| To whom might I say what it is the night of sadness is a bad disaster | H |
| Why would I have minded dying if it took place one time | N |
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| Since upon having died I became disgraced why were I not drowned in the ocean | O |
| Neither a funeral procession would ever been formed nor would there anywhere be a tomb | P |
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| Who can see him for that Oneness is unique | Q |
| If there were even a whiff of twoness then somehow He would be two or four | R |
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| These problems of mysticism this discourse of yours Ghalib | S |
| We would consider you a saint if you weren't a wine drinker | H |
Mirza Ghalib
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