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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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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