The Secret Draught Of Wine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDBD EFEGHGH IJKJLJM HNHNONO PPPPQPQ QRQR| THE secret draught of wine and love repressed | A |
| Are joys foundationless then come whate'er | B |
| May come slave to the grape I stand confessed | A |
| Unloose oh friend the knot of thy heart's care | C |
| Despite the warning that the Heavens reveal | D |
| For all his thought never astronomer | B |
| That loosed the knot of Fate those Heavens conceal | D |
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| Not all the changes that thy days unfold | E |
| Shall rouse thy wonder Time's revolving sphere | F |
| Over a thousand lives like thine has rolled | E |
| That cup within thy fingers dost not hear | G |
| The voices of dead kings speak through the clay | H |
| Kobad Bahman Djemshid their dust is here | G |
| 'Gently upon me set thy lips ' they say | H |
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| What man can tell where Kaus and Kai have gone | I |
| Who knows where even now the restless wind | J |
| Scatters the dust of Djem's imperial throne | K |
| And where the tulip following close behind | J |
| The feet of Spring her scarlet chalice rears | L |
| There Ferhad for the love of Shirin pined | J |
| Dyeing the desert red with his heart's tears | M |
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| Bring bring the cup drink we while yet we may | H |
| To our soul's ruin the forbidden draught | N |
| Perhaps a treasure trove is hid away | H |
| Among those ruins where the wine has laughed | N |
| Perhaps the tulip knows the fickleness | O |
| Of Fortune's smile for on her stalk's green shaft | N |
| She bears a wine cup through the wilderness | O |
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| The murmuring stream of Ruknabad the breeze | P |
| That blows from out Mosalla's fair pleasaunce | P |
| Summon me back when I would seek heart's ease | P |
| Travelling afar what though Love's countenance | P |
| Be turned full harsh and sorrowful on me | Q |
| I care not so that Time's unfriendly glance | P |
| Still from my Lady's beauty turned be | Q |
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| Like Hafiz drain the goblet cheerfully | Q |
| While minstrels touch the lute and sweetly sing | R |
| For all that makes thy heart rejoice in thee | Q |
| Hangs of Life's single slender silken string | R |
Shams Al-din Hafiz Shirazi
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