Analysis of Rubaiyat 08
Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)
My beloved is brighter than the sun,
Put in the heavens, my only one.
Placed the hearts upon the earth
To watch the sun’s daily run.
| Scheme | AABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Mâni Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 101110101 100101101 1010101 1101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 139 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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