Lady That Hast My Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDC EFEFGGE BHCHIIC JKJLMMJ NONPKLN QRQR| LADY that hast my heart within thy hand | A |
| Thou heed'st me not and if thou turn thine ear | B |
| Unto the wise thou shalt not understand | A |
| Behold the fault is thine our words were clear | C |
| For all the tumult in my drunken brain | D |
| Praise God who trieth not His slave in vain | D |
| Nor this world nor the next shall make me fear | C |
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| My weary heart eternal silence keeps | E |
| I know not who has slipped into my heart | F |
| Though I am silent one within me weeps | E |
| My soul shall rend the painted veil apart | F |
| Where art thou Minstrel touch thy saddest strings | G |
| Till clothed in music such as sorrow sings | G |
| My mournful story from thy zither sweeps | E |
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| Lo not at any time I lent mine ear | B |
| To hearken to the glories of the earth | H |
| Only thy beauty to mine eyes was dear | C |
| Sleep has forsaken me and from the birth | H |
| Of night till day I weave bright dreams of thee | I |
| Drunk with a hundred nights of revelry | I |
| Where is the tavern that sets forth such cheer | C |
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| My heart sad hermit stains the cloister floor | J |
| With drops of blood the sweat of anguish dire | K |
| Ah wash me clean and o'er my body pour | J |
| Love's generous wine the worshippers of fire | L |
| Have bowed them down and magnified my name | M |
| For in my heart there burns a living flame | M |
| Transpiercing Death's impenetrable door | J |
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| What instrument through last night's silence rang | N |
| My life into his lay the minstrel wove | O |
| And filled my brain with the sweet song he sang | N |
| It was the proclamation of thy love | P |
| That shook the strings of Life's most secret lyre | K |
| And still my breast heaves with last night's desire | L |
| For countless echoes from that music sprang | N |
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| And ever since the time that Hafiz heard | Q |
| His Lady's voice as from a rocky hill | R |
| Reverberates the softly spoken word | Q |
| So echoes of desire his bosom fill | R |
Shams Al-din Hafiz Shirazi
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