Analysis of Any Lifetime
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
Any lifetime that is spent without seeing the master
Is either death in disguise or a deep sleep.
The water that pollutes you is poison;
The poison that purifies you is water.
| Scheme | ABCA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011110110010 11010011011 0101011110 010111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 180 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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