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 |
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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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