O Cup Bearer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDB EFEFGGF HIJIKKI LFMFHJ NONOPPO QRRR| OH Cup bearer set my glass afire | A |
| With the light of wine oh minstrel sing | B |
| The world fulfilleth my heart's desire | C |
| Reflected within the goblet's ring | B |
| I see the glow of my Love's red cheek | D |
| And scant of wit ye who fail to seek | D |
| The pleasures that wine alone can bring | B |
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| Let not the blandishments be checked | E |
| That slender beauties lavish on me | F |
| Until in the grace of the cypress decked | E |
| My Love shall come like a ruddy pine tree | F |
| He cannot perish whose heart doth hold | G |
| The life love breathes though my days are told | G |
| In the Book of the World lives my constancy | F |
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| But when the Day of Reckoning is here | H |
| I fancy little will be the gain | I |
| That accrues to the Sheikh for his lawful cheer | J |
| Or to me for the draught forbidden I drain | I |
| The drunken eyes of my comrades shine | K |
| And I too stretching my hand to the wine | K |
| On the neck of drunkenness loosen the rein | I |
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| Oh wind if thou passest the garden close | L |
| Of my heart's dear master carry for me | F |
| The message I send to him wind that blows | M |
| 'Why hast thou thrust from thy memory | F |
| My hapless name ' breathe low in his ear | H |
| 'Knowest thou not that the day is near | J |
| When nor thou nor any shall think on me ' | - |
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| If with tears oh Hafiz thine eyes are wet | N |
| Scatter them round thee like grain and snare | O |
| The Bird of joy when it comes to thy net | N |
| As the tulip shrinks from the cold night air | O |
| So shrank my heart and quailed in the shade | P |
| Oh Song bird Fortune the toils are laid | P |
| When shall thy bright wings lie pinioned there | O |
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| The heavens' green sea and the bark therein | Q |
| The slender bark of the crescent moon | R |
| Are lost in thy bounty's radiant noon | R |
| Vizir and pilgrim Kawameddin | R |
Shams Al-din Hafiz Shirazi
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