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
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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Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, and more popularly simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. more…

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