Analysis of In The Arc Of Your Mallet

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



Don't go anywhere without me.
Let nothing happen in the sky apart from me,
or on the ground, in this world or that world,
without my being in its happening.
Vision, see nothing I don't see.
Language, say nothing.
The way the night knows itself with the moon,
be that with me. Be the rose
nearest to the thorn that I am.
I want to feel myself in you when you taste food,
in the arc of your mallet when you work,
when you visit friends, when you go
up on the roof by yourself at night.
There's nothing worse than to walk out along the street
without you. I don't know where I'm going.
You're the road, and the knower of roads,
more than maps, more than love


Scheme AABCACDEFGHIJKCLM
Poetic Form
Metre 1110011 110100010111 1101011111 0111001100 10110111 10110 0101101101 1111101 10101111 11111011111 0011110111 11101111 110110111 110111110101 0111111110 101001011 111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 647
Words 131
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 500
Words per stanza (avg) 129
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 01, 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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