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I see decay and death in middle youth, Remembering the shroud by each gray strand. My heart is restless now, without an aim, Because this is not what I once had planned. I cannot speak the tongue I want to speak, And cannot find a soul who'll understand.
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Feb 2, 2022
Feb 2, 2022 at 6:59 AM UTC
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I see decay and death in middle youth, Remembering the shroud by each gray strand. My heart is restless now, without an aim, Because this is not what I once had planned. I cannot speak the tongue I want to speak, And cannot find a soul who'll understand.
The qita or qitah (fragment) has a rhyme scheme of: xa - xa, varying between 2 or 15 couplets (longer ones do also exist). It was and is populair in West Asian and Middle Eastern literture. Its western equivalent is the epigram.
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Feb 2, 2022
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