Analysis of Rubaiyat 33

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



Beauty of the rose you eclipse,
Every bud quietly away slips.
How can the rose compete with you?
Rose shines in moonlight, moon in your grips.


Scheme AABA
Poetic Form Mâni 
Rubaiyat 
Metre 10101101 1001100011 11010111 11011011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 147
Words 28
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 112
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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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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