This is an analysis of Sleep Of The Body The Soul's Awakening by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi.

Every night Thou freest our spirits from the body
And its snare, making them pure as rased tablets.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbcaccXdebfcedXefgga
  • Stanza lengths: 22,
  • Metre: 10011101100010 101100111010 100110101001 1111010011010 1110011010110 111110101100 11011111111 10101111111 010010011010101 11111101101 100001001111 1010001010010 111101101010 10001010010001 00100100100001 11010011001 011000101111000 10100100010011 10010010110 101010111 111001010001 111100010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

or, of, his

Anaphora

at

Epiphora

snare