Analysis of Ode 314

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



Those who don't feel this Love
pulling them like a river,
those who don't drink dawn
like a cup of spring water
or take in sunset like supper,
those who don't want to change,
let them sleep.
This Love is beyond the study of theology,
that old trickery and hypocrisy.
I you want to improve your mind that way,
sleep on.
I've given up on my brain.
I've torn the cloth to shreds
and thrown it away.
If you're not completely naked,
wrap your beautiful robe of words
around you,
and sleep.


Scheme ABCBBDEFFGHIJGKLME
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 1011010 11111 1011110 1101110 111111 111 1110101010100 1110000100 1111011111 11 1101111 110111 01101 11101010 11100111 011 01
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 481
Words 94
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 374
Words per stanza (avg) 92
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 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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