This is an analysis of Moving Water by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river
moving in you, a joy.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XX Xa a b Xc cc Xb a XXc
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,3,
  • Metre: 111101111010 100101 1101001010010 101 11101111011110 1101011101100110 01010010101011111 1100010 0100010100110101 01100100 1100100011111001 11110100111111101110001 1111111010110 1011101111101101000111010010100 100101011001010011101010100101101100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 10
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

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