Analysis of Rubaiyat 26
Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)
One with such beauty none will make.
When her garments off we take
You can see her heart in her fragile breast,
Like a hard rock in a clear lake.
| Scheme | AABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Mâni Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 11110111 1010111 1110100101 10110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 150 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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