Analysis of Love is reckless
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
Love is reckless; not reason.
Reason seeks a profit.
Love comes on strong,
consuming herself, unabashed.
Yet, in the midst of suffering,
Love proceeds like a millstone,
hard surfaced and straightforward.
Having died of self-interest,
she risks everything and asks for nothing.
Love gambles away every gift God bestows.
Without cause God gave us Being;
without cause, give it back again.
| Scheme | XXXX AXX XAX AX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110110 101010 1111 0100101 10011100 101101 1100110 1011110 111001110 110011001101 01111110 01111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 383 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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