Analysis of Rubaiyat 25

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



O friend, from your foes your heart release,
In pleasant company drink the good wine with ease.
Confer with those who know, open your heart
And from the ignorant fleas flee like the breeze.


Scheme ABCB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Simple 4-line
Metre 111111101 010100101111 0111111011 01010011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 194
Words 36
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 151
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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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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