Analysis of Out Beyond Ideas

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



Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn't make any sense


Scheme XX XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 101010110001 11011111 10111011 011111101 010101001110 101101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 231
Words 44
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 4
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 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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