Analysis of Rubaiyat 14
Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)
Since the flower withers in the dark,
The bud blooms to leave its mark,
Happy is the heart, light as a bubble,
At the tavern is naked, stark.
| Scheme | AABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Mâni Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 101010001 0111111 1010111010 10101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 146 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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