Analysis of Only Breath
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu
Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion
or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up
from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,
am not an entity in this world or in the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any
origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.
I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,
first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.
Scheme | AX XX XX XX XX AX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111011 10111110010 110010111101 10111101011 1011100101001 0111001111101 1111000111001 110111001110 10010111101 101101011 10110011101 1110111101 111010101 1101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 579 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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