Analysis of Rubaiyat 20
Shams al-Din Hafiz 1315 (Shiraz) – 1390 (Shiraz)
This tired life is the flood of age,
With a full cup began this outrage.
Wake up, and see the carrier of time
Slowly carries you along life’s passage.
| Scheme | AABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110110111 10110111 1101010011 1010101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 157 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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