Analysis of Sleep of the Body the Soul's Awakening
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
Every night Thou freest our spirits from the body
And its snare, making them pure as rased tablets.
Every night spirits are released from this cage,
And set free, neither lording it nor lorded over.
At night prisoners are unaware of their prison,
At night kings are unaware of their majesty.
Then there is no thought or care for loss or gain,
No regard to such an one or such an one.
The state of the 'Knower' is such as this, even when awake.
God says,4 'Thou wouldst deem him awake though asleep,
Sleeping to the affairs of the world, day and night,
Like a pen in the directing hand of the writer.
He who sees not the hand which effects the writing
Fancies the effect proceeds from the motion of the pen.
If the 'Knower' revealed the particulars of this state,
'Twould rob the vulgar of their sensual sleep.
His soul wanders in the desert that has no similitude;
Like his body, his spirit is enjoying perfect rest;
Freed from desire of eating and drinking,
Like a bird escaped from cage and snare.
But when he is again beguiled into the snare,
He cries for help to the Almighty.
Scheme | ABCDEAFEGHIDJKLHAMJNNA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100111010101010 01110111110 100110101111 01110111110 111001011110 11110111100 11111111111 10111111111 011010111110101 11111101101 101001101101 1010001011010 111101101010 10001011010101 10100100100111 11010111001 111000101111 11101101010011 11010110010 101011101 111101010101 111110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,067 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 849 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 200 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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