Analysis of This Aloneness
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
This aloneness is worth more than a thousand lives.
This freedom is worth more than all the lands on earth.
To be one with the truth for just a moment,
Is worth more than the world and life itself.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110101 110111110111 11110111010 1111010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 202 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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