Analysis of Love is the Water of Life
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
Everything other than love for the most beautiful
God
though it be sugar- eating.
What is agony of the spirit?
To advance toward death without seizing
hold of the Water of Life.
| Scheme | ABCDCE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101011101100 1 1111010 111001010 1010110110 1101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 184 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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