Analysis of Let go of your worries

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



Let go of your worries
and be completely clear-hearted,
like the face of a mirror
that contains no images.
If you want a clear mirror,
behold yourself
and see the shameless truth,
which the mirror reflects.
If metal can be polished
to a mirror-like finish,
what polishing might the mirror
of the heart require?
Between the mirror and the heart
is this single difference:
the heart conceals secrets,
while the mirror does not.


Scheme ABCDCEFGHICCJKLM
Poetic Form
Metre 111110 01010110 1011010 1011100 1110110 0101 010101 101001 1101110 1010110 11001010 10110 01010001 1110100 010110 101011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 433
Words 75
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 341
Words per stanza (avg) 73
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 25, 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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