Analysis of I closed my eyes to creation
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
I closed my eyes to creation when I beheld his beauty, I became
intoxicated with his beauty and bestowed my soul.
For the sake of Solomon’s seal I became wax in all my body,
and in order to become illumined I rubbed my wax.
I saw his opinion and cast away my own twisted opinion; I
became his reed pipe and likewise lamented on his lip.
He was in my hand, and blindly I groped for him with my
hand; I was in his hand, and yet I inquired of those who were
misinformed.
I must have been either a simpleton or drunk or mad that
fearfully I was stealing from my own gold.
Like a thief I crept through a crack in the wall into my own
vine, like a thief I gathered jasmine from my own garden.
Enough, do not twist my secret upon your fingertips, for I have
twisted off out of your twisted fist.
Shams-e Tabriz, from whom comes the light of moon and
stars–though I am grieving with sorrow for him, I am like the
crescent of the festival.
Scheme | ABCDEFEGHIJKLMNOPQ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111010111110101 0100111000111 101111101101110 00101010101111 111010010111100101 0111101010111 11011010111111 1110110110101110 001 1111100111111 111101111 101111010010111 11011101011110 0111111001110111 101111101 11111101110 111110110111110 1010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 942 |
Words | 186 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 725 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 184 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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