Analysis of Moving Water

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



When you do things from your soul, you feel a river
moving in you, a joy.

When actions come from another section, the feeling
disappears.

Don't let others lead you. They may be blind or, worse, vultures.

Reach for the rope of God. And what is that? Putting aside self-will.

Because of willfulness people sit in jail, the trapped bird's wings are tied,
fish sizzle in the skillet.

The anger of police is willfulness. You've seen a magistrate
inflict visible punishment.

Now see the invisible. If you could leave your selfishness, you
would see how you've been torturing your soul. We are born and live inside black water in a well.

How could we know what an open field of sunlight is?

Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring. Your living pieces will form a harmony.

There is a moving palace that floats in the air with balconies and clear water flowing through, infinity everywhere, yet contained under a single tent.


Scheme XX XX X X XX XX XX X X X
Poetic Form
Metre 111111111010 100101 1101101010010 01 11101111111110 1101110111100111 011110101011111 1100010 0101011111010 01100100 1100100111111001 11111100111110101110001 111111101111 101110111111110110111010110100 11010101100111000110101010010101100101
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 954
Words 173
Sentences 19
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 50
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 75
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 29, 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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