Analysis of My mother was fortune, my father generosity and bounty

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )



My mother was fortune, my father generosity and bounty; I
am joy, son of joy, son of joy, son of joy.
Behold, the Marquis of Glee has attainted felicity; this city and
plain are filled with soldiers and drums and flags.
If I encounter a wolf, he becomes moonfaced Joseph; if I go
down into a well, it converts into a Garden of Eram.
He whose heart is as iron and stone out of miserliness is now
changed before me into a Hatem of the age in generosity and
bounty.
Dust becomes gold and pure silver in my hand; how then
should the temptation of gold and silver waylay me?
I have an idol such that, were his sweet scent scattered
abroad, even an idol of stone would receive life through joy.
Sorrow has died for joy in him of “may God bind your consolation”;
how should not such a sword strike the neck of sorrow?
By tyranny he seizes the soul of whom he desires; justices are
all slaves of such injustice and tyranny.
What is that mole on that face? Should it manifest itself, out
of desire for it forthwith maternal aunt would be estranged from
paternal [uncle].
I said, “If I am done and send my story, will you finish it and
expound it?” He answered, “Yes.”


Scheme ABCDEFGCHIFJBKELHMFNCO
Poetic Form
Metre 11011011001000101 11111111111 0101111101001100 1111100101 1101001101110111 101011100101011 11111100111111 101101010101001000 10 1011011001111 100101101011 1111011011110 011011011101111 1011110111111010 111101101110 1100110011110101001 11110100100 11111111110011 10101111010111011 0101 11111101110111010 0111101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,178
Words 224
Sentences 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 22
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 902
Words per stanza (avg) 220
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, and more popularly simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. more…

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