Analysis of Be With Those Who Help Your Being
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
Be with those who help your being.
Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath
comes cold out of their mouths.
Not these visible forms, your work is deeper.
A chunk of dirt thrown in the air breaks to pieces.
If you don't try to fly,
and so break yourself apart,
you will be broken open by death,
when it's too late for all you could become.
Leaves get yellow. The tree puts out fresh roots
and makes them green.
Why are you so content with a love that turns you yellow?
| Scheme | XAXX XXXAX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111110 1110101011 111111 11100111110 011110011110 111111 0110101 111101011 1111111101 1110011111 0111 11111010111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 473 |
| Words | 93 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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