This is an analysis of In Love by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi.

In love, aside from sipping the wine of timelessness,
nothing else exists.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,
  • Metre: 01010100101000 10101 101101100111011 111111111 111011111011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 5

Repeated words/phrases

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Epiphora

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