Analysis of Rubaiyat 19
Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)
You can buy everyone with gold;
Either in one shot, or slowly are sold.
Even the narcissus, pride of the world,
Sold itself, why, its crown of gold behold.
| Scheme | AABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Mâni Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 1111011 1001111011 1000101101 1011111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 160 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| 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) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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