Analysis of Not Here
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
There's courage involved if you want
to become truth.
There is a broken- open place in a lover.
Where are those qualities of bravery and
sharp compassion in this group? What's the
use of old and frozen thought?
I want a howling hurt. This is not a treasury
where gold is stored; this is for copper.
We alchemists look for talent that
can heat up and change.
Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back,
well-enough getting by? Not here.
Scheme | XX A XXX XA XX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001111 1011 110101010010 11110011000 101001110 1110101 1101011110100 111111110 1111101 11101 111110101 10110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 438 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 3, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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