Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 16 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDBE| I remember having in the days of my youth passed through a street intending to see a moon faced beauty It was in Temuz whose heat dried up the saliva in the mouth and whose simum boiled the marrow in my bones My weak human nature being unable to endure the scorching sun I took refuge in the shadow of a wall wishing someone might relieve me from the summer heat and quench my fire with some water and lo all of a sudden from the darkness of the porch of a house a light shone forth namely a beauty the grace of which the tongue of eloquence is unable to describe She came out like the rising dawn after an obscure night or the water of immortality gushing from a dark cavern carrying in her hand a bowl of snow water into which sugar had been poured and essence of roses mixed I knew not whether she had perfumed it with rose water or whether a few drops from her rosy face had fallen into it In short I took the beverage from her beautiful hands drank it and began to live again | A |
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| The thirst of my heart cannot be quenched | B |
| By sipping limpid water even if I drink oceans of it | B |
| Blessed is the man of happy destiny whose eye | C |
| Alights every morning on such a countenance | D |
| One drunk of wine awakens at midnight | B |
| One drunk of the cupbearer on the morn of resurrection | E |
Saadi Shirazi
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