Analysis of Rubaiyat 24
Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)
At dawn your eyes from Jupiter learn
O God, may fantasies of my mind burn.
The ear adorned with that elegant ring
Gems of Hafiz’s poems may earn.
Scheme | AABA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Mâni Rubaiyat |
Metre | 111111001 1111001111 0101111001 1111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 152 |
Words | 30 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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