Brings Me Hope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEFGHH BIIBCC JKKJLM NOONPQ| WHAT drunkenness is this that brings me hope | A |
| Who was the Cup bearer and whence the wine | B |
| That minstrel singing with full voice divine | B |
| What lay was his for 'mid the woven rope | A |
| Of song he brought word from my Friend to me | C |
| Set to his melody | C |
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| The wind itself bore joy to Solomon | D |
| The Lapwing flew from Sheba's garden close | E |
| Bringing good tidings of its queen and rose | F |
| Take thou the cup and go where meadows span | G |
| The plain whither the bird with tuneful throat | H |
| Has brought Spring's sweeter note | H |
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| Welcome oh rose and full blown eglantine | B |
| The violets their scented gladness fling | I |
| Jasmin breathes purity art sorrowing | I |
| Like an unopened bud oh heart of mine | B |
| The wind of dawn that sets closed blossoms free | C |
| Brings its warm airs to thee | C |
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| Saki thy kiss shall still my bitter cry | J |
| Lift up your grief bowed heads all ye that weep | K |
| The Healer brings joy's wine cup oh drink deep | K |
| Disciple of the Tavern priest am I | J |
| The pious Sheikh may promise future bliss | L |
| He brings me where joy is | M |
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| The greedy glances of a Tartar horde | N |
| To me seemed kind my foeman spared me not | O |
| Though one poor robe was all that I had got | O |
| But Heaven served Hafiz as a slave his lord | N |
| And when he fled through regions desolate | P |
| Heaven brought him to thy gate | Q |
Shams Al-din Hafiz Shirazi
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