Saadi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEF GHIIJKJKKLLKMF NNOOPQRSMMF TUUVVWXYYZA2ZA2 JJB2B2C2C2D2D2E2E2F2 F2G2G2H2H2G2G2G2G2G2 I2I2ZZMMJ2J2G2G2G2G2 K2JK2J G2G2G2G2FMLLL2L2G2G2 HHI2I2JJ M2EG2G2ZHHK2K2I2I2JJ G2G2HHN2N2G2G2M2MLLO 2O2LLL2ZP2P2ZZF2F2 Q2Q2ZZR2R2S2T2LLU2V2 G2G2G2G2HHW2W2G2G2G2 G2OOHHW2W2HHG2G2W2W2| Trees in groves | A |
| Kine in droves | A |
| In ocean sport the scaly herds | B |
| Wedge like cleave the air the birds | B |
| To northern lakes fly wind borne ducks | C |
| Browse the mountain sheep in flocks | D |
| Men consort in camp and town | E |
| But the poet dwells alone | F |
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| God who gave to him the lyre | G |
| Of all mortals the desire | H |
| For all breathing men's behoof | I |
| Straitly charged him Sit aloof | I |
| Annexed a warning poets say | J |
| To the bright premium | K |
| Ever when twain together play | J |
| Shall the harp be dumb | K |
| Many may come | K |
| But one shall sing | L |
| Two touch the string | L |
| The harp is dumb | K |
| Though there come a million | M |
| Wise Saadi dwells alone | F |
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| Yet Saadi loved the race of men | N |
| No churl immured in cave or den | N |
| In bower and hall | O |
| He wants them all | O |
| Nor can dispense | P |
| With Persia for his audience | Q |
| They must give ear | R |
| Grow red with joy and white with fear | S |
| Yet he has no companion | M |
| Come ten or come a million | M |
| Good Saadi dwells alone | F |
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| Be thou ware where Saadi dwells | T |
| Gladly round that golden lamp | U |
| Sylvan deities encamp | U |
| And simple maids and noble youth | V |
| Are welcome to the man of truth | V |
| Most welcome they who need him most | W |
| They feed the spring which they exhaust | X |
| For greater need | Y |
| Draws better deed | Y |
| But critic spare thy vanity | Z |
| Nor show thy pompous parts | A2 |
| To vex with odious subtlety | Z |
| The cheerer of men's hearts | A2 |
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| Sad eyed Fakirs swiftly say | J |
| Endless dirges to decay | J |
| Never in the blaze of light | B2 |
| Lose the shudder of midnight | B2 |
| And at overflowing noon | C2 |
| Hear wolves barking at the moon | C2 |
| In the bower of dalliance sweet | D2 |
| Hear the far Avenger's feet | D2 |
| And shake before those awful Powers | E2 |
| Who in their pride forgive not ours | E2 |
| Thus the sad eyed Fakirs preach | F2 |
| Bard when thee would Allah teach | F2 |
| And lift thee to his holy mount | G2 |
| He sends thee from his bitter fount | G2 |
| Wormwood saying Go thy ways | H2 |
| Drink not the Malaga of praise | H2 |
| But do the deed thy fellows hate | G2 |
| And compromise thy peaceful state | G2 |
| Smite the white breasts which thee fed | G2 |
| Stuff sharp thorns beneath the head | G2 |
| Of them thou shouldst have comforted | G2 |
| For out of woe and out of crime | I2 |
| Draws the heart a lore sublime | I2 |
| And yet it seemeth not to me | Z |
| That the high gods love tragedy | Z |
| For Saadi sat in the sun | M |
| And thanks was his contrition | M |
| For haircloth and for bloody whips | J2 |
| Had active hands and smiling lips | J2 |
| And yet his runes he rightly read | G2 |
| And to his folk his message sped | G2 |
| Sunshine in his heart transferred | G2 |
| Lighted each transparent word | G2 |
| And well could honoring Persia learn | K2 |
| What Saadi wished to say | J |
| For Saadi's nightly stars did burn | K2 |
| Brighter than Dschami's day | J |
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| Whispered the muse in Saadi's cot | G2 |
| O gentle Saadi listen not | G2 |
| Tempted by thy praise of wit | G2 |
| Or by thirst and appetite | G2 |
| For the talents not thine own | F |
| To sons of contradiction | M |
| Never sun of eastern morning | L |
| Follow falsehood follow scorning | L |
| Denounce who will who will deny | L2 |
| And pile the hills to scale the sky | L2 |
| Let theist atheist pantheist | G2 |
| Define and wrangle how they list | G2 |
| Fierce conserver fierce destroyer | H |
| But thou joy giver and enjoyer | H |
| Unknowing war unknowing crime | I2 |
| Gentle Saadi mind thy rhyme | I2 |
| Heed not what the brawlers say | J |
| Heed thou only Saadi's lay | J |
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| Let the great world bustle on | M2 |
| With war and trade with camp and town | E |
| A thousand men shall dig and eat | G2 |
| At forge and furnace thousands sweat | G2 |
| And thousands sail the purple sea | Z |
| And give or take the stroke of war | H |
| Or crowd the market and bazaar | H |
| Oft shall war end and peace return | K2 |
| And cities rise where cities burn | K2 |
| Ere one man my hill shall climb | I2 |
| Who can turn the golden rhyme | I2 |
| Let them manage how they may | J |
| Heed thou only Saadi's lay | J |
| Seek the living among the dead | G2 |
| Man in man is imprisoned | G2 |
| Barefooted Dervish is not poor | H |
| If fate unlock his bosom's door | H |
| So that what his eye hath seen | N2 |
| His tongue can paint as bright as keen | N2 |
| And what his tender heart hath felt | G2 |
| With equal fire thy heart shall melt | G2 |
| For whom the muses shine upon | M2 |
| And touch with soft persuasion | M |
| His words like a storm wind can bring | L |
| Terror and beauty on their wing | L |
| In his every syllable | O2 |
| Lurketh nature veritable | O2 |
| And though he speak in midnight dark | L |
| In heaven no star on earth no spark | L |
| Yet before the listener's eye | L2 |
| Swims the world in ecstasy | Z |
| The forest waves the morning breaks | P2 |
| The pastures sleep ripple the lakes | P2 |
| Leaves twinkle flowers like persons be | Z |
| And life pulsates in rock or tree | Z |
| Saadi so far thy words shall reach | F2 |
| Suns rise and set in Saadi's speech | F2 |
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| And thus to Saadi said the muse | Q2 |
| Eat thou the bread which men refuse | Q2 |
| Flee from the goods which from thee flee | Z |
| Seek nothing Fortune seeketh thee | Z |
| Nor mount nor dive all good things keep | R2 |
| The midway of the eternal deep | R2 |
| Wish not to fill the isles with eyes | S2 |
| To fetch thee birds of paradise | T2 |
| On thine orchard's edge belong | L |
| All the brass of plume and song | L |
| Wise Ali's sunbright sayings pass | U2 |
| For proverbs in the market place | V2 |
| Through mountains bored by regal art | G2 |
| Toil whistles as he drives his cart | G2 |
| Nor scour the seas nor sift mankind | G2 |
| A poet or a friend to find | G2 |
| Behold he watches at the door | H |
| Behold his shadow on the floor | H |
| Open innumerable doors | W2 |
| The heaven where unveiled Allah pours | W2 |
| The flood of truth the flood of good | G2 |
| The seraph's and the cherub's food | G2 |
| Those doors are men the pariah kind | G2 |
| Admits thee to the perfect Mind | G2 |
| Seek not beyond thy cottage wall | O |
| Redeemer that can yield thee all | O |
| While thou sittest at thy door | H |
| On the desert's yellow floor | H |
| Listening to the gray haired crones | W2 |
| Foolish gossips ancient drones | W2 |
| Saadi see they rise in stature | H |
| To the height of mighty nature | H |
| And the secret stands revealed | G2 |
| Fraudulent Time in vain concealed | G2 |
| That blessed gods in servile masks | W2 |
| Plied for thee thy household tasks | W2 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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