Analysis of Rubaiyat 21

Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)



Don’t make me fall in love with that face
Don’t let the drunk the wine seller embrace.
Sufi, you know the pace of this path,
The lovers and drunks don’t disgrace.


Scheme AABA
Poetic Form Mâni 
Rubaiyat 
Metre 111101111 1101011001 11101111 01001101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 173
Words 33
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 125
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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