Certain Maxims Of Hafiz Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BACD A EE A DD F GG F FF F HII F FF F DD F DD F DD F JJ F DD F EE F DDEE F DDDDBB F BDBB F FF F DDD F KKK| I | A |
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| If It be pleasant to look on stalled in the packed serai | B |
| Does not the Young Man try Its temper and pace ere he buy | A |
| If She be pleasant to look on what does the Young Man say | C |
| quot Lo She is pleasant to look on give Her to me to day quot | D |
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| II | A |
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| Yea though a Kafir die to him is remitted Jehannum | E |
| If he borrowed in life from a native at sixty per cent per anuum | E |
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| III | A |
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| Blister we not for bursati So when the heart is vexed | D |
| The pain of one maiden's refusal is drowned in the pain of the next | D |
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| IV | F |
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| The temper of chums the love of your wife and a new piano's tune | G |
| Which of the three will you trust at the end of an Indian June | G |
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| V | F |
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| Who are the rulers of Ind to whom shall we bow the knee | F |
| Make your peace with the women and men will make you L G | F |
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| VI | F |
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| Does the woodpecker flit round the young ferash | H |
| Does grass clothe a new built wall | I |
| Is she under thirty the woman who holds a boy in her thrall | I |
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| VII | F |
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| If She grow suddenly gracious reflect Is it all for thee | F |
| The black buck is stalked through the bullock and Man through jealousy | F |
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| VIII | F |
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| Seek not for favor of women So shall you find it indeed | D |
| Does not the boar break cover just when you're lighting a weed | D |
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| IX | F |
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| If He play being young and unskilful for shekels of silver and gold | D |
| Take his money my son praising Allah The kid was ordained to be sold | D |
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| X | F |
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| With a quot weed quot amoung men or horses verily this is the best | D |
| That you work him in office or dog cart lightly but give him no rest | D |
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| XI | F |
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| Pleasant the snaffle of Courtship improving the manners and carriage | J |
| But the colt who is wise will abstain from the terrible thorn bit of Marriage | J |
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| XII | F |
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| As the thriless gold of the babul so is the gold that we spend | D |
| On a derby Sweep or our neighbor's wife or the horse that we buy from a friend | D |
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| XIII | F |
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| The ways of man with a maid be strange yet simple and tame | E |
| To the ways of a man with a horse when selling or racing that same | E |
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| XIV | F |
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| In public Her face turneth to thee and pleasant Her smile when ye meet | D |
| It is ill The cold rocks of El Gidar smile thus on the waves at their feet | D |
| In public Her face is averted with anger She nameth thy name | E |
| It is well Was there ever a loser content with the loss of the game | E |
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| XV | F |
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| If She have spoken a word remember thy lips are sealed | D |
| And the Brand of the Dog is upon him by whom is the secret revealed | D |
| If She have written a letter delay not an instant but burn it | D |
| Tear it to pieces O Fool and the wind to her mate shall return it | D |
| If there be trouble to Herward and a lie of the blackest can clear | B |
| Lie while thy lips can move or a man is alive to hear | B |
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| XVI | F |
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| My Son if a maiden deny thee and scufflingly bid thee give o'er | B |
| Yet lip meets with lip at the last word get out | D |
| She has been there before | B |
| They are pecked on the ear and the chin and the nose who are lacking in lore | B |
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| XVII | F |
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| If we fall in the race though we win the hoff slide is scarred on the course | F |
| Though Allah and Earth pardon Sin remaineth forever Remorse | F |
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| XVIII | F |
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| quot By all I am misunderstood quot if the Matron shall say or the Maid | D |
| quot Alas I do not understand quot my son be thou nowise afraid | D |
| In vain in the sight of the Bird is the net of the Fowler displayed | D |
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| XIX | F |
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| My son if I Hafiz thy father take hold of thy knees in my pain | K |
| Demanding thy name on stamped paper one day or one hour refrain | K |
| Are the links of thy fetters so light that thou cravest another man's chain | K |
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