This is an analysis of Lift This Veil Beloved One by Bulleh Shah.
Lift this veil (reveal yourself) beloved one! Why this modesty now?
Your curls ambush me, become poisonous, sting me!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: A XX Xb bc XX cXXA
- Stanza lengths: 1,2,2,2,2,4,
- Metre: 10101100101101001 111110110011 111110111110111 1110111101 110111111111100 111001010101110110 1010111111101 1111111111011101 1101100111101011 110011010011111101001 1101111101101011 10101100101101001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
me, you, your, i, this
Anaphora
you
