This is an analysis of Whether Or Not You Know This by Bulleh Shah.
Whether or not you know this,
Enter my courtyard.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XAbA bXaA aXXA bXbA
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1011110 10111 1011111011111 10111 1110111111 111100101110 11100101 10111 10011101011 110 111111010 10111 111101101 111100 10011111 10111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
you, my
Anaphora
though