Analysis of Rubaiyat 07

Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)



A new challenge everyday
You keep away and delay;
When I act to close the gap
Fate says there is a bigger play.


Scheme AABA
Poetic Form Mâni 
Rubaiyat 
Metre 0110101 1101001 1111101 11110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 116
Words 25
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 87
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Shams al-Din Hafiz

Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (Persian: خواجه شمس‌‌الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی‎), known by his pen name Hafez (حافظ, Ḥāfeẓ, 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper' and as "Hafiz", was a Persian poet who "lauded the joys of love and wine but also targeted religious hypocrisy". more…

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