Analysis of Any Soul That Drank the Nectar

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



Any soul that drank the nectar of your passion was lifted.
From that water of life he is in a state of elation.
Death came, smelled me, and sensed your fragrance instead.
From then on, death lost all hope of me.


Scheme ABCD
Poetic Form
Metre 101110101110110 111011110011010 11110111001 111111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 216
Words 43
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 164
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 11, 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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