Analysis of My Friend has fled
Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)
My friend has fled! alas, my friend has fled,
And left me nought but tears and pain behind!
Like smoke above a flame caught by the wind,
So rose she from my breast and forth she sped.
Drunk with desire, I seized Love's cup divine,
But she that held it poured the bitter wine
Of Separation into it and fled.
The hunter she, and I the helpless prey;
Wounded and sick, round me her toils she drew,
My heart into a sea of sorrow threw,
Bound up her camel loads and fled away.
Fain had I laid an ambush for her soul,
She saw and vanished, and the timid foal,
Good Fortune, slipped the rein and would not stay.
My heart was all too narrow for my woe,
And tears of blood my weeping eyes have shed,
A crimson stream across the desert sped,
Rising from out my sad heart's overflow.
She knew not what Love's meanest slave can tell:
''Tis sweet to serve!' but threw me a Farewell,
Kissing my threshold, turned, and cried 'I go!'
In the clear dawn, before the east was red,
Before the rose had torn her veil in two,
A nightingale through Hafiz' garden flew,
Stayed but to fill its song with tears, and fled.
Scheme | ABBACCA DEEDFFD GAAGHHG AEEA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111011111 0111110101 1101011101 1111110111 11010111101 1111110101 101001101 0101010101 1001110111 1101011101 1101010101 111111101 1101000101 1101010111 1111110111 0111110111 0101010101 101111110 1111110111 111111101 101110111 0011010111 0101110101 010011101 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,079 |
Words | 215 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 4 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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