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
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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Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, and more popularly simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. more…

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