This is an analysis of If You Show Patience by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi.
If you show patience, I'll rid you of this virtue.
If you fall asleep, I'll rub the sleep from your eyes.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaa
- Stanza lengths: 4,
- Metre: 011101110010 011011101011 0101010111010 10101110111110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 4
Repeated words/phrases
you, if, i'll
Anaphora
if
