Analysis of Rubaiyat 38
Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)
Bring me the cup that preys on joy;
Bring me a lover who is shy and coy.
The wine that twists and turns like a chain
Bring me to enslave and destroy.
| Scheme | AABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Mâni Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 11011111 1101011101 011101101 11101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 154 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 12, 2023
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