Analysis of Rubaiyat 12
Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)
All treasures ain’t worth this oppression.
All pleasures ain’t worth one transgression.
Not even seven thousand years of joy
Is worth seven days of depression.
| Scheme | AABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Mâni Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 110111010 110111010 1101010111 111011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 168 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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