Analysis of Ode 1957: An intellectual
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
An intellectual is all the time showing off.
Lovers dissolve and become bewildered.
Intellectuals try not to drown,
while the whole purpose of loves
is drowning.
Intellectual invent
ways to rest, and then lie down~
in those beds.
Lovers feel ashamed
of comforting ideas.
You’ve seen a glob
of oil on water? That’s how a lover
sits with intellectuals, there, but alone
in a circle of himself.
Some intellectual
tries to give sound advice to a lover.
All he hears back is, I love you.
I love you.
Love is musk. Don’t deny it
when you smell the scent!
Love is a tree.
Lovers, the shade of the long branches.
To the intellectual mind, a child must learn
to grow up and be adult.
In the station of love,
you see old men getting younger and younger.
Shams chose to live low in the roots
for you. So now, he soars in the air
as you sublimely articulating love!
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Metre | 101001101101 1001001010 01001111 1011011 110 010001 1110111 011 10101 1100010 1101 1111011010 1101001101 0010101 10100 1111011010 11111111 111 1111011 11101 1101 100110110 10010010111 1110101 001011 11111010010 11111001 111111001 11101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 840 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 3, 3, 2, 4, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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