Analysis of This is love
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,
to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First, to let go of live.
In the end, to take a step without feet;
to regard this world as invisible,
and to disregard what appears to be the self.
Heart, I said, what a gift it has been
to enter this circle of lovers,
to see beyond seeing itself,
to reach and feel within the breast.
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111010101 11010111110 111111 0011101011 1011110100 01011011101 111101111 110110110 11011001 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 380 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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