This is an analysis of Weary Not Of Us, For We Are Very Beautiful by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi.
Weary not of us, for we are very beautiful; it is out of very jealousy and proper pride that we entered the veil.
On the day when we cast of the body’s veil from the soul, you will see that we are the envy of despair of man and the Polestars.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXXXaXXbXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 15,
- Metre: 10101111101000010101001101111001 101111001010011011110100010110100 11110111010110101111100001 111110101100101101001111110011010 0110111010111101001010111101 11010101010110101110010111 0100101110101110111010010 010101101101001101011101 0110111010011101001011100001 11011010110010011011101111000101 1010101110111111111001 111100100101101111001001000101 10111110010111100110111001010 00100010101101011111111010011 1010010101011011010010011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
of, we, and, that, for, veil
