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

Time bringeth swift to end
The rout men keep;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXb cacaXccXX ddeeXdfdf gdgdXaagg hheXXdXig XegXXhgij kdhd dgdg XeaeXeele aammXhhhh leXeXcXcm jagaXgghh gXffXkknn aaddXgXaa llaaXblbl gagaXgfgfXdgdg
  • Stanza lengths: 4,9,9,9,9,9,4,4,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,14,
  • Metre: 110101 0111 110101 1101 110111 0101 1100101 1001 1 1110101 1011101 10110010 10111000 1010011 1010101 11110101 0010111 1 0100101 011001 1110111 1101 1101100 111111 010111 00100 1 11111 00101001 11111 111101 1100001 100101 11101 111011 1 1101010 1101 1100010 0101 1101010 0111 1100111 01110 1 11010010 1110011 1111010 111100 1000110 011111 101010 100111 101001 10001 100100 1111 10100 01101 11111 1011 1 1101101 11101001 1111101 101000 1001101 1011111 1010101 10111 1 01001 101001 101 01111 1011 11101 010110 0111 1 01011101 1100 01010001 0101 01010100 0101 01100101 0101 1 1011 001101 1111101 101111 010001 1101000 1011101 111111 1 110101 111101 0101010 11110 110101 011111 011101 0111 1 1100111 010101 01001001 00101 11011 00101 111100 01011 1 010011 010111 101101 1110 10111 10111 100101 0101 1 1101001 110101 010111 1101111 00111 010101 111101 1100101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 16
  • Lines: 134

Repeated words/phrases

who, my, life

Anaphora

the, past, round, his