Analysis of Untitled

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



The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere
They’re in each other all along.


Scheme ABCDE
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Tanka  (20%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Lanturne  (20%)
Metre 0101111110 1101011110 1111 10110011 10110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 174
Words 32
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 132
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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