Analysis of The Rose has flushed Red
Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)
The rose has flushed red, the bud has burst,
And drunk with joy is the nightingale
Hail, Sufis! lovers of wine, all hail!
For wine is proclaimed to a world athirst.
Like a rock your repentance seemed to you;
Behold the marvel! of what avail
Was your rock, for a goblet has cleft it in two!
Bring wine for the king and the slave at the gate
Alike for all is the banquet spread,
And drunk and sober are warmed and fed.
When the feast is done and the night grows late,
And the second door of the tavern gapes wide,
The low and. the mighty must bow the head
'Neath the archway of Life, to meet what . . . outside?
Except thy road through affliction pass,
None may reach the halting-station of mirth
God's treaty: Am I not Lord of the earth?
Man sealed with a sigh: Ah yes, alas!
Nor with Is nor Is Not let thy mind contend
Rest assured all perfection of mortal birth
In the great Is Not at the last shall end.
For Assaf's pomp, and the steeds of the wind,
And the speech of birds, down the wind have fled,
And he that was lord of them all is dead;
Of his mastery nothing remains behind.
Shoot not thy feathered arrow astray!
A bow-shot's length through the air it has sped,
And then . . . dropped down in the dusty way.
But to thee, oh Hafiz, to thee, oh Tongue
That speaks through the mouth of the slender reed,
What thanks to thee when thy verses speed
From lip to lip, and the song thou hast sung?
Scheme | ABBACBC DEEDFEF GHHGIHI JEEJKEK LMML |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011110111 011110100 11101111 111011011 1011010111 010101101 111101011101 11101001101 011110101 010101101 1011100111 00101101011 0100101101 1011111111 011110101 1110101011 1101111101 111011101 11111111101 10110101101 0011110111 111001101 0011110111 0111111111 11100100101 111101001 0111101111 011100101 111111111 1110110101 111111101 1111001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,373 |
Words | 272 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 214 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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