This is an analysis of I Closed My Eyes To Creation by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi.

I closed my eyes to creation when I beheld his beauty, I became
intoxicated with his beauty and bestowed my soul.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXbXcdceeXdcXa
  • Stanza lengths: 18,
  • Metre: 111100101110010101 01010001010111 10101001101101110 10100010101111 110010110111100101 01011111010101 11011110111101 1110011110100110 001 111010010011111 10011100111 101111010010011 11011101001110 01111110011101111 101101101 111001101011 101110010111110 1000100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

i, my, his, and, hand