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.


Scheme ABCDEBFGHIJ
Poetic Form
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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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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