Analysis of Seize the Day



If with chalices of fine wine you are drunk, be delightful!
If lounged with a glamorous moonfaced, be delightful!
Since the end, the intention of this universe is nonexistence;
Thus image your oblivion, and then while you are, be delightful!


Scheme AABA
Poetic Form Mâni 
Rubaiyat 
Metre 1111111111010 111010011010 1010010111011 11010100011111010
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 238
Words 40
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 48
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 193
Words per stanza (avg) 40
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Submitted on December 09, 2014

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Arash Titan

Alireza Salehi Nejad, also known as his pseudonym Arash Titan, was born in Iran. He is a Persian-Turkish author, researcher, entrepreneur and poet. His inspiring poets are Omar Khayyám, Ahmad Shamlou, William Shakespeare, and John Ronald R. Tolkien. more…

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