This is an analysis of Bitter Dolor by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
In its beak, a nightingale had a roseleaf of exquisite color
And on that pleasant food, it nourished on some bitter dolor…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaabbccddeeXXXX X
- Stanza lengths: 18,1,
- Metre: 001010010100010010 111101010111010 1110001110101011 1110010000101110 00101011011011110 01001111010110010 111101101010101 10111001010100010011 011100100101110111 010010001010001011 011010111011010 100010101101010110 100101101001101 01000010010110101 01010111 01010101 01000101 11010101 010110010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 19
Repeated words/phrases
and, he, of
Epiphora
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