Analysis of In The Arc Of Your Mallet
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
Don't go anywhere without me.
Let nothing happen in the sky apart from me,
or on the ground, in this world or that world,
without my being in its happening.
Vision, see nothing I don't see.
Language, say nothing.
The way the night knows itself with the moon,
be that with me. Be the rose
nearest to the thorn that I am.
I want to feel myself in you when you taste food,
in the arc of your mallet when you work,
when you visit friends, when you go
up on the roof by yourself at night.
There's nothing worse than to walk out along the street
without you. I don't know where I'm going.
You're the road, and the knower of roads,
more than maps, more than love
Scheme | AABCACDEFGHIJKCLM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110011 110100010111 1101011111 0111001100 10110111 10110 0101101101 1111101 10101111 11111011111 0011110111 11101111 110110111 110111110101 0111111110 101001011 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 647 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 500 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 129 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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