Analysis of Rubaiyat 06
Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)
You are the moon and the sun is your slave;
As your slave, it like you must behave.
It is only your luminosity and light
That light of sun and moon can save.
| Scheme | AABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Mâni Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 1101001111 111111101 11101101 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 162 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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