Analysis of There Are A Hundred Kinds Of Prayer (Quatrain in Farsi with English Translation)
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
emrôz chô har rôz, kharâb-êm kharâb
ma-g'shâ dar andêsha-wo bar gîr rabâb
Sad gôna namâz-ast-o rukû`-ast-o sujûd
ân-râ ke jamâl-é dôst bâsh-ad miHrâb
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Today, like every day, we are ruined, ruined (by 'wine').
Don't open the door of worry, but take up the lute!
There are a hundred kinds of prayer, bowing, and prostration6
For the one whose prayer-niche, is the beauty of the Beloved
| Scheme | AAAA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111111 11101111111 1111111111111 111111111111 1 1011100111101011 1100111011101 11010111100010 10111110101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 502 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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