This is an analysis of We Are As The Flute by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi.
We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa baX Xa cd Xeb dXcXbe
- Stanza lengths: 2,3,2,2,3,6,
- Metre: 11101101001001 111010101001001 1111001010100101 1100101001 111100110 111111011 11101010011 11110001101010 11010110110101000 111101101010 010011110 10010010 11010100 101001 1110011101 110111111101011 11010001100010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
and, we, thee, from, in, as
Anaphora
we, our
Epiphora
thee
