The Fortune Teller Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHGHFDIJKF LMNOFPCQ CRSFTDUDUVCGMWXFQY CFTZFDEA2B2CCC2| She sat with fear in her eyes | A |
| Contemplating the upturned cup | B |
| She said 'Do not be sad my son | C |
| You are destined to fall in love' | D |
| My son Who sacrifices himself for his beloved | E |
| Is a martyr | F |
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| For long have I studied fortune telling | G |
| But never have I read a cup similar to yours | H |
| For long have I studied fortune telling | G |
| But never have I seen sorrows similar to yours | H |
| You are predestined to sail forever | F |
| Sail less on the sea of love | D |
| Your life is forever destined | I |
| To be a book of tears | J |
| And be imprisoned | K |
| Between water and fire | F |
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| But despite all its pains | L |
| Despite the sadness | M |
| That is with us day and night | N |
| Despite the wind | O |
| The rainy weather | F |
| And the cyclone | P |
| It is love my son | C |
| That will be forever the best of fates | Q |
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| There is a woman in your life my son | C |
| Her eyes are so beautiful | R |
| Glory to God | S |
| Her mouth and her laughter | F |
| Are full of roses and melodies | T |
| And her gypsy and crazy love of life | D |
| Travels the world | U |
| The woman you love | D |
| May be your whole world | U |
| But your sky will be rain filled | V |
| Your road blocked blocked my son | C |
| Your beloved my son is sleeping | G |
| In a guarded palace | M |
| He who approaches her garden wall | W |
| Who enters her room | X |
| And who proposes to her | F |
| Or tries to unite her plaits | Q |
| Will cause her to be lost my son lost | Y |
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| You will seek her everywhere my son | C |
| You will ask the waves of the sea about her | F |
| You will ask the shores of the seas | T |
| You will travel the oceans | Z |
| And your tears will flow like a river | F |
| And at the close of your life | D |
| You will find that since your beloved | E |
| Has no land no home no address | A2 |
| You have been pursuing only a trace of smoke | B2 |
| How difficult it is my son | C |
| To love a woman | C |
| Who has neither land nor home | C2 |
Nizar Qabbani
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