Analysis of At the Twilight
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
At the twilight, a moon appeared in the sky;
Then it landed on earth to look at me.
Like a hawk stealing a bird at the time of prey;
That moon stole me and rushed back into the sky.
I looked at myself, I did not see me anymore;
For in that moon, my body turned as fine as soul.
The nine spheres disappeared in that moon;
The ship of my existence drowned in that sea.
| Scheme | AB XA XX XB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101001 1110111111 101100110111 11110110101 11111111101 101111011111 01101011 01110101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 370 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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