Analysis of I Swear
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
I swear, since seeing Your face,
the whole world is fraud and fantasy
The garden is bewildered as to what is leaf
or blossom. The distracted birds
can't distinguish the birdseed from the snare.
A house of love with no limits,
a presence more beautiful than venus or the moon,
a beauty whose image fills the mirror of the heart.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011 011110100 010101011111 11000101 1010010101 01111110 0101100110101 0101101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 328 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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