This is an analysis of The Meaning Of Love by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi.

Both light and shadow
are the dance of Love.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbXbababXbXba
  • Stanza lengths: 15,
  • Metre: 11111 10101 1111 0001000110 10110101000 110 111110011 11010001110 1111101011 111010 1111010101 1001001 110101111 1001001100 10101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

i

Anadiplosis

love