Analysis of I Have a Fire for You in my Mouth
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
I have a fire for you in my mouth, but I have a hundred seals
on my tongue.
The flames which I have in my heart would make one mouth-
ful of both worlds.
Though the entire world should pass away, without the world
I possess the kingdom of a hundred worlds.
Caravans which are loaded with sugar I have in motion for
the Egypt of nonexistence.
The drunkenness of love makes me unaware whether I have
profit of loss therefrom.
The body’s eye was scattering pearls because of love, till now
I have a pearl-scattering soul.
I am not housebound, for like Jesus I have a home in the fourth
Heaven.
Thanks be to Him who gives soul to the body; if the soul
should depart, yet I have the soul of the soul.
Seek from me that which Shams-e Tabrizi has bestowed, for
I have the same.
| Scheme | ABCDEDFAGHIJKLJJFH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010110111110101 111 011110111111 1111 10010111010101 10101010101 101110110110101 01011 01001111011011 10111 01111001011111 11011001 111111101101001 10 11111111010101 10111101101 111111111011 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 785 |
| Words | 152 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 18 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 602 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 149 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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