This is an analysis of Who Is At My Door? by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi.
He said, 'Who is at my door?'
I said, 'Your humble servant.'…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aaX bbbXcXbX XXXX cXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX bbXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,8,4,4,8,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1110111 1111010 111101110 1111111 111101101 1110111 11110110010 1110111 101101 10101 11111100 11111011 111110 11111110 010011011 111101110100 1111101 1110100110 1111110 111111 1111111101 11111101 11101010 111110101010 11110111 1111110 111100110 1111101100 11110000100 11111110 11110100 1110010100 1111101 111001 111111101 11101100 1111011000 111010100 11110100 111011000 1110100110 111111000010 111101011 1001110 0111010110 111011101 1101111111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 47
Repeated words/phrases
said, ', i, you, my, witness
Epiphora
', love
