This is an analysis of There Are A Hundred Kinds Of Prayer (Quatrain In Farsi With English Translation) by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi.

emrôz chô har rôz, kharâb-êm kharâb
ma-g'shâ dar andêsha-wo bar gîr rabâb…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 1111111 111101111 111111111 11111111 10111001111010110 1100101011101 11010101101100 101111001000010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

b, z, r

Epiphora

b