Analysis of When I am asleep and crumbling in the tomb
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
When I am asleep and crumbling in the tomb, should you come
to visit me, I will come forth with speed.
You are for me the blast of the trumpet and the resurrection,
so what shall I do? Dead or living, wherever you are, there am I.
Without your lip I am a frozen and silent reed; what melodies
I play the moment you breathe on my reed!
Your wretched reed has become accustomed to your sugar lip;
remember wretched me, for I am seeking you.
When I do not find the moon of your countenance, I bind up
my head [veil myself in your mourning]; when I do not find your
sweet lip, gnaw my own hand.
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Metre | 111010100001111 1101111111 111101101000010 11111111001011111 01111101001011100 1101011111 110110101011101 010101111101 111110111100111 1111011111111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 456 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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