This is an analysis of Out Beyond Ideas by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XX aXXa
  • Stanza lengths: 2,4,
  • Metre: 1010100100110 10011111 10111011 010110101 010101001110 101101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 6