This is an analysis of The Privileged Lovers by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi.

The moon has become a dancer
at this festival of love.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abc XbXdXE fdce dffdEXa
  • Stanza lengths: 3,6,4,7,
  • Metre: 01101010 1010001 0101 01010 0011 101 00101 101011 011010010 110101 11010 11010001 11101001 11101 0100101 11010010 101011 011010010 010110010
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

this, they

Anaphora

this