Analysis of I am only the house of your beloved

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



'I am only the house of your beloved,
not the beloved herself:
true love is for the treasure,
not for the coffer that contains it.'
The real beloved is that one who is unique,
who is your beginning and your end.
When you find that one,
you'll no longer expect anything else:
that is both the manifest and the mystery.
That one is the lord of states of feeling,
dependent on none;
month and year are slaves to that moon.
When he bids the 'state,'
it does His bidding;
when that one wills, bodies become spirit.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJGKLJM
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 1110011101 100101 1111010 110101011 01011111101 111010011 11111 111001101 11101000100 1110111110 01011 10111111 11101 11110 1111100110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 503
Words 100
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 393
Words per stanza (avg) 96
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 28, 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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