This is an analysis of Reason Says Love Says by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi.
Reason says, “ I will beguile him with the tongue.”; Love says,
“Be silent. I will beguile him with the soul.”…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXXccdbeXfbgehaffhdXXXhgcXXhcX
- Stanza lengths: 31,
- Metre: 1011001100111 01010011001 011001111111110 1011010111011 11 101100110110010011 101101101010 010001110111101 01001001 1011000011000101 111011010010001 10110101100110110 111011010 101010010101011 110110101110 111101010111110 101111101101 10101011000010001 11101100100111 101111111111110 1001101000 101111111111110 11010100100101100 1111111001100 1001111011010110 101010010101001011 1011010110110100 01000011011110010 0101101 1110100101100001 00110011001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 31
Repeated words/phrases
i, says, beguile, him, and, of, he, world, should, my
Anaphora
the
