Analysis of Not Intrigued With Evening
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
What the material world values does
not shine the same in the truth of the soul.
You have been interested
in your shadow. Look instead directly at the sun.
What can we know by just
watching the time-and-space shapes of each other?
Someone half awake in the night sees imaginary dangers;
the morning star rises; the horizon grows
defined; people become friends in a moving caravan.
Night birds may think
daybreak a kind of darkness, because
that's all they know.
It's a fortunate
bird who's not intrigued with evening,
who flies in the sun we call Shams.
Scheme | AX XX XX X XX XXX XXA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 1001001101 1101001101 111100 011101010101 111111 10010111110 11010011010010 01011000101 0110011001010 1111 10111001 1111 10100 11110110 11001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 553 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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