Analysis of We Are As The Flute
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
our victory and defeat is from thee,
O thou whose qualities are comely!
Who are we, O Thou soul of our souls,
that we should remain in being beside thee?
We and our existences are really non-existence;
thou art the absolute Being which manifests the perishable.
We all are lions, but lions on a banner:
because of the wind they are rushing
onward from moment to moment.
Their onward rush is visible,
and the wind is unseen:
may that which is unseen not fail from us!
Our wind whereby we are moved and our being are of thy gift;
our whole existence is from thy bringing into being.
Scheme | AA XAA XA XB XCX BXX XC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101001001111 111010001001111 1111011010100001 10100001111 111100110 1111111101 11101010011 101011101010 110101011001000 111101101010 011011110 10110110 11011100 001101 1111011111 10101111010101111 101010111100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 746 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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