Analysis of Rubaiyat 42
Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)
If like me, you too fall in this trap,
Hold the wine and cup upon your lap.
We are the lovers, burning our tracks,
Join us, if you can put up with the crap.
| Scheme | AABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Mâni Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 111111011 101010111 1101010101 1111111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 161 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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