My Friend Has Fled Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCA DEEDFFD GAAGHH AEEA| My friend has fled alas my friend has fled | A |
| And left me nought but tears and pain behind | B |
| Like smoke above a flame caught by the wind | B |
| So rose she from my breast and forth she sped | A |
| Drunk with desire I seized Love's cup divine | C |
| But she that held it poured the bitter wine | C |
| Of Separation into it and fled | A |
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| The hunter she and I the helpless prey | D |
| Wounded and sick round me her toils she drew | E |
| My heart into a sea of sorrow threw | E |
| Bound up her camel loads and fled away | D |
| Fain had I laid an ambush for her soul | F |
| She saw and vanished and the timid foal | F |
| Good Fortune slipped the rein and would not stay | D |
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| My heart was all too narrow for my woe | G |
| And tears of blood my weeping eyes have shed | A |
| A crimson stream across the desert sped | A |
| Rising from out my sad heart's overflow | G |
| She knew not what Love's meanest slave can tell | H |
| ''Tis sweet to serve ' but threw me a Farewell | H |
| Kissing my threshold turned and cried 'I go ' | - |
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| In the clear dawn before the east was red | A |
| Before the rose had torn her veil in two | E |
| A nightingale through Hafiz' garden flew | E |
| Stayed but to fill its song with tears and fled | A |
Shams Al-din Hafiz Shirazi
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