Balqees Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMMNOPMMQ RSMTD| Balqees oh princess | A |
| You burn caught between tribal wars | B |
| What will I write about the departure of my queen | C |
| Indeed words are my scandal | D |
| Here we look through piles of victims | E |
| For a star that fell for a body strewn like fragments of a mirror | F |
| Here we ask oh my love | G |
| Was this your grave | H |
| Or the grave of Arab nationalism | I |
| I won't read history after today | J |
| My fingers are burned my clothes bedecked with blood | K |
| Here we are entering the stone age | L |
| Each day we regress a thousand years | M |
| What does poetry say in this era Balqees | M |
| What does poetry say in the cowardly era | N |
| The Arab world is crushed repressed its tongue cut | O |
| We are crime personified | P |
| Balqees | M |
| I beg your forgiveness | M |
| Perhaps your life was the ransom of my own | Q |
| Indeed I know well | R |
| That the purpose of those who were entangled in murder was to kill | S |
| my words | M |
| Rest in God's care oh beautiful one | T |
| Poetry after you is impossible | D |
Nizar Qabbani
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