Analysis of Rubaiyat 09
Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)
My broken heart’s sorrows are deep.
Painful, disturbed, broken my sleep.
If you don’t believe, send me your thoughts
And you will see how in sleep I weep.
| Scheme | AABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Mâni Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 11011011 10011011 111011111 011110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 163 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 12, 2023
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