Analysis of The Seed Market

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



Can you find another market like this?
Where,
with your one rose
you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?
Where,
for one seed
get a whole wilderness?
For one weak breath,
a divine wind?
You've been fearful
of being absorbed in the ground,
or drawn up by the air.
Now, your waterbead lets go
and drops into the ocean,
where it came from.
It no longer has the form it had,
but it's still water
The essence is the same.
This giving up is not a repenting.
It's a deep honoring of yourself.
When the ocean comes to you as a lover,
marry at once, quickly,
for God's sake!
Don't postpone it!
Existence has no better gift.
No amount of searching
will find this.
A perfect falcon, for no reason
has landed on your shoulder,
and become yours.


Scheme aBcdBefghijbklmnopqrostuvqalow
Poetic Form Tetractys  (37%)
Etheree  (27%)
Metre 1110101011 1 1111 111101110 1 111 101100 1111 0011 1110 11001001 111101 11111 0101010 1111 111010111 11110 010101 1101110010 101100101 10101111010 101110 111 1011 01011101 101110 111 001101110 1101110 0011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 712
Words 140
Sentences 15
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 30
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 561
Words per stanza (avg) 138
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 26, 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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