Analysis of Rubaiyat 40
Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)
O divider of heaven and hell bring relief,
Don’t let us give in to our grief.
How long upon our lives you prey?
Why don’t you hunt our lives’ thief?
Scheme | AABA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Mâni Rubaiyat |
Metre | 101011001101 111101101 110110111 11111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 159 |
Words | 32 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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