This is an analysis of Who Says Words With My Mouth? by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi.
All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXaX XcdXXcX dbXceX Xeaad
- Stanza lengths: 5,7,6,5,
- Metre: 1111010111110 101101111010010 111010 1100110101 11010111 010001011010 111101011 100101011 0101001010010001010 010101111 110010111111 111011 1110111001 110110 0111110110 1111001011 1101101101111111 010111010111 01001101101001 1110 101101000 111010110111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 25
Repeated words/phrases
i, of
Anaphora
i
Epiphora
it
