This is an analysis of Arise O Cup- Bearer by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.

ARISE, oh Cup-bearer, rise! and bring
To lips that are thirsting the bowl they praise,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababacbc dXdXdeXX bfbfbgXghehX X
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,12,1,
  • Metre: 011110111 0111100111 1011111101 11111011001 11101101101 0100100111 00100111101 0101111111 1010101101 11011111011 111001001111 0100110100 111110111 0111111011 0100100111 11110011011 0111101001 11011111 111101111 1110101101 111100100 11111010001 11110110010 1110110111 110101101 1101110111 1111010010011 10101101001 0101101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 29

Repeated words/phrases

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