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Source — «حافظ» غزل ۱۸۷، «دلا بسوز که سوز تو کارها بکند»
Witness: Ganjoor, Qazvini–Ghani text of the Divan of Hafez,
https://api.ganjoor.net/api/ganjoor/page?url=/hafez/ghazal/sh187, fetched 2026-08-30 (S233).
Public domain (Hafez, d. c. 1390). Raw JSON preserved at
workshop/experiments/E-20260830-leaf-contract/materials/sh187.json.
7 bayts · 8 rhyming positions · radif بکند · qāfiya in -ā
(کارها · بلا · جفا · نما · دوا · خدا · دعا · صبا), from the frozen 495-ghazal census
runs/RS-20260829-radif-hands/census.json, reused byte-identical.
Why this poem, and the rule was fixed before a line was written
Three conditions, all checkable before any English existed:
- It is one of the 28 odes Walter Leaf translated in 1898 — his ode XV — so Leaf's own
printed metre assignment is available for it: his table (book pp. 19–20) puts XV in
metre 2,
⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ – – ‖ ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑⏑̄ –, the second commonest metre in Hafez (142 of 573 ghazals by his count). A rendering under Leaf's contract needs the metre from Leaf, not from the lead's own scansion of the Persian. - Its radif sits in the cell
framework/v0.2§7.36.1 calls unreachable — a transitive finite verb — and it is the one item of that cell inRS-20260829-radif-hands§4 that no published hand carried: Leaf declined it here, and Payne 1901 vol. 1 stops at ode CC, so Brockhaus 234 is outside his reach. The published record therefore holds no counter-instance at this item. - It is not
sh118orsh124, the twoداردghazals S232 rendered, so the poem is new to the project.
The Persian, with a literal gloss
| Persian | gloss | |
|---|---|---|
| 1a | دِلا! بِسوز! که سوزِ تو، کارها بِکُنَد | O heart, burn! for your burning does works |
| 1b | نیازِ نیم‌شَبی، دَفْعِ صَد بَلا بِکُنَد | a midnight supplication does the averting of a hundred afflictions |
| 2a | عِتابِ یارِ پَری‌چِهْرِه، عاشِقانِه بِکَش! | bear the chiding of the peri-faced beloved in a lover's way |
| 2b | کِه یِک کِرِشْمِه، تَلافیِّ صَد جَفا بِکُنَد | for one coquetry does the requital of a hundred cruelties |
| 3a | زِ مُلْک تا مَلَکوتَش، حِجاب بَردارَنْد | from the kingdom to its heaven they lift the veil away |
| 3b | هَر آن‌کِه خِدْمَتِ جامِ جَهان‌نَما بِکُنَد | for whoever does the service of the world-showing cup |
| 4a | طَبیبِ عِشْق، مَسیحا‌دَم است و مُشْفِق، لیک | love's physician is Messiah-breathed and compassionate, but |
| 4b | چو دَرد، دَر تو نَبینَد؛ کِه را دَوا بِکُنَد؟ | when he sees no pain in you, for whom does he do the cure? |
| 5a | تو با خدایِ خود اَنداز کار! و دِل، خوش دار! | cast your affair upon your own God, and keep your heart glad |
| 5b | کِه رَحْم اَگَر نَکُنَد مُدَّعی، خُدا بِکُنَد | for if the accuser shows no mercy, God does [it] |
| 6a | زِ بَخْتِ خُفْتِه مَلولَم، بُوَد که بیداری | I am weary of my sleeping fortune; may it be that a waking |
| 6b | بِه وَقْتِ فاتِحِهٔ صُبْح، یک دُعا بِکُنَد؟ | at the hour of the dawn Fātiḥa does one prayer |
| 7a | بِسوخْت «حافِظ» و بویی به زُلْفِ یار نَبُرْد | Hafez burned away and carried off no scent of the Friend's tress |
| 7b | مَگَر دِلالَتِ این دولَتَش، صَبا بِکُنَد | unless the dawn breeze does the guiding of him to this good fortune |
The structural fact the rendering turns on. In seven of the eight rhyming positions the
qāfiya is the noun of a light-verb compound whose verb is the radif (کار کردن, دفع کردن,
تلافی کردن, خدمت کردن, دوا کردن, دعا کردن, دلالت کردن). In the eighth (5b) the qāfiya
خدا is the subject. So English can only put the word rendering بکند last by moving the noun
in front of it — the line-end inversion RS-20260829b-inversion-price priced at 2.407 points of ten
in plain lexis. The poem cannot be rendered with the radif carried and the inversion avoided.
No published English of this ghazal was fetched, opened or read before the renderings below were
written and frozen. Leaf's ode XV sits inside the OCR file this session stored, and the
extraction script that reads it was run after the freeze; the contamination measurement in
dependence-note.md uses Leaf's complete book, ode XV included, as the comparator.