Cypress And Tulip Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDA CCCCEEC CFCFGGC HIHICCH JHJHHHJ K| Cypress and Tulip and sweet Eglantine | A |
| Of these the tale from lip to lip is sent | B |
| Washed by three cups oh Saki of thy wine | A |
| My song shall turn upon this argument | C |
| Spring bride of all the meadows rises up | D |
| Clothed in her ripest beauty fill the cup | D |
| Of Spring's handmaidens runs this song of mine | A |
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| The sugar loving birds of distant Ind | C |
| Except a Persian sweetmeat that was brought | C |
| To fair Bengal have found nought to their mind | C |
| See how my song that in one night was wrought | C |
| Defies the limits set by space and time | E |
| O'er plains and mountain tops my fearless rhyme | E |
| Child of a night its year long road shall find | C |
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| And thou whose sense is dimmed with piety | C |
| Thou too shalt learn the magic of her eyes | F |
| Forth comes the caravan of sorcery | C |
| When from those gates the blue veined curtains rise | F |
| And when she walks the flowery meadows through | G |
| Upon the jasmine's sham d cheek the dew | G |
| Gathers like sweat she is so fair to see | C |
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| Ah swerve not from the path of righteousness | H |
| Though the world lure thee like a wrinkled crone | I |
| Hiding beneath her robe lasciviousness | H |
| She plunders them that pause and heed her moan | I |
| From Sinai Moses brings thee wealth untold | C |
| Bow not thine head before the calf of gold | C |
| Like Samir following after wickedness | H |
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| From the Shah's garden blows the wind of Spring | J |
| The tulip in her lifted chalice bears | H |
| A dewy wine of Heaven's minist'ring | J |
| Until Ghiyasuddin the Sultan hears | H |
| Sing Hafiz of thy longing for his face | H |
| The breezes whispering round thy dwelling place | H |
| Shall carry thy lament unto the King | J |
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| Translated by Gertrude Bell | K |
Shams Al-din Hafiz Shirazi
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