Analysis of Rubaiyat 03
Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)
I said, your lips said, your lips we revive;
I said, your mouth said, sweetness we derive;
I said your words, he said, Hafiz said;
May all sweet lips be joyous and alive.
| Scheme | AABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Mâni Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 1111111101 1111110101 11111111 1111110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 175 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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