This is an analysis of Late, By Myself by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi.

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,
no light and no land anywhere,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,
  • Metre: 1111001011 11111101 10011101 101010 1001010 1100010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 6