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

Time's knife slides from the sheath,
as fish from where it swims.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xa Xb Xb cX ca XX X
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,1,
  • Metre: 111001 110101 101011000010 001011110 10100111 111010110 101011011 0100101001 101010111 11101011 1010101110 0100111010 1111001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

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