To Weep
To Weep - form Summary
Ghazal's Repeating Lament
This poem is structured as a ghazal: a series of self-contained couplets that return to the single mood of lament. Each couplet stages a variation on weeping—addressing the speaker, the world, rivals, and the act of crying itself—so the repetition of sorrow accumulates rather than resolving. The closing couplet directly names the speaker, shifting from lament to admonition and creating a personal, cyclical feel. The form’s couplet independence allows small shifts in perspective while the repeated theme binds the poem into a sustained, elegiac register.
Read Complete AnalysesO Miir so loudly, if you continue to weep, how will your neighbour be able to stay asleep. Such a lamenter I am who's about to die, from whom each year clouds will continue to cry. Preacher I am won't to weep, time and again, till when will you keep wiping tears of my pain. O weeping, do you not heave eyes, tell me pray, till when will you keep drowning the word this way. My heart has produced a wailing so intense, even the clanging bell now will lose all sense. You may berate my rival as much you choose, don't blame me for the outcome, if me too you abuse. Miir you've wept enough, wipe tears from your brow, how long will you keep stringing pearls do let me know.
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