True Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEEDFGFBHIIHJKJK LMML NONOPQQPRSRS T| TRUE love has vanished from every heart | A |
| What has befallen all lovers fair | B |
| When did the bonds of friendship part | A |
| What has befallen the friends that were | C |
| Ah why are the feet of Khizr lingering | D |
| The waters of life are no longer clear | E |
| The purple rose has turned pale with fear | E |
| And what has befallen the wind of Spring | D |
| None now sayeth 'A love was mine | F |
| Loyal and wise to dispel my care ' | G |
| None remembers love's right divine | F |
| What has befallen all lovers fair | B |
| In the midst of the field to the players' feet | H |
| The ball of God's favour and mercy came | I |
| But none has leapt forth to renew the game | I |
| What has befallen the horsemen fleet | H |
| Roses have bloomed yet no bird rejoiced | J |
| No vibrating throat has rung with the tale | K |
| What can have silenced the hundred voiced | J |
| What has befallen the nightingale | K |
| Heaven's music is hushed and the planets roll | L |
| In silence has Zohra broken her lute | M |
| There is none to press out the vine's ripe fruit | M |
| And what has befallen the foaming bowl | L |
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| A city where kings are but lovers crowned | N |
| A land from the dust of which friendship springs | O |
| Who has laid waste that enchanted ground | N |
| What has befallen the city of kings | O |
| Years have passed since a ruby was won | P |
| From the mine of manhood they labour in vain | Q |
| The fleet footed wind and the quickening rain | Q |
| And what has befallen the light of the sun | P |
| Hafiz the secret of God's dread task | R |
| No man knoweth in youth or prime | S |
| Or in wisest age of whom would'st thou ask | R |
| What has befallen the wheels of Time | S |
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| Translated by Gertrude Bell | T |
Shams Al-din Hafiz Shirazi
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