Analysis of Rubaiyat 36
Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)
Every flower its beauty bestows,
Your lips the dearest gems dispose.
May your lips nurture our souls
With the wine that every spirit knows.
Scheme | AABA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Mâni Rubaiyat |
Metre | 1001011001 11010101 11110101 1011100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 144 |
Words | 26 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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