This is an analysis of From The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám, I: 1-3, V: 12-15, 19-24, 71-72 by Edward Fitzgerald.
1
Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aaba X ccdX X eefX X ggbX X hhgh X XgbX X ddcd X ccic X ddid X iifi X aaea X hhXh X ccfc X aada XXffaf
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,6,
- Metre: 1 1101110001 0101100101 1101000111 010001000101 1 0101001101 1001010101 10101000101 110101001000 1 1101111101 01010100101 1111011101 110101011100 1 0101010101 0101010111 0111000100 1100010110 1 1101000111 1101010101 1101110101 1101000101 1 10010101110 100111000111 1101010011 11010101010 1 1111000101 1111000111 0101110111 1101111101 1 1011110111 0111110101 11001010101 1001011101 1 1001011101 1001011111 1101010111 01110100101 1 111000010111 0101011101 0111011110 1101011100 1 11110100101 1001010111 1111011101 1111110001 1 1111110001 1111010011 0111010101 0101010111 1 1101011111 0111000101 1001110101 1111110111 1 0101011101 1111110011 1101010101 1111110100 1 1101011101 10010001111 1111001110 1100011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 30
- Lines: 89
Repeated words/phrases
dust, sans, nor
Anaphora
a, and
