What Cannot Be Said Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA AA BB CC DD EE FF AA GG GG EE AH H| There's one who took my heart away | A |
| But does she own it I can't say | A |
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| See her as unjust though I may | A |
| Is she a tyrant I can't say | A |
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| She strides a bloodless battlefield | B |
| Where there's no battle axe to wield | B |
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| She keeps a wineless banquet hall | C |
| Where there's no bowl to raise at all | C |
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| Although she serves wine ceaselessly | D |
| Her fingers bring no cup to me | D |
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| Her idol carving hand is sure | E |
| But you cannot call her Azer | E |
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| When riots quiet down why must | F |
| You brag of ousting the unjust | F |
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| There will be nothing you can say | A |
| Of the unjust on Judgment Day | A |
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| Within the breast the secret lies | G |
| Which none can ever sermonize | G |
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| How strange a thing it is that throws | G |
| The mind askew till no one knows | G |
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| How I Ghalib am no believer | E |
| But can't be called unfaithful either | E |
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| lt b gt Note lt b gt | A |
| Azer in the Islamic tradition Abraham's father who manufactured and served Nimrod's idols Known as Terah in the Judeo Christian tradition | H |
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| Trasnlated from Persian | H |
Mirza Ghalib
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