This is an analysis of Brings Me Hope by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
WHAT drunkenness is this that brings me hope--
Who was the Cup-bearer, and whence the wine?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacX bdebff bXXbcc caacde gffgff
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 1100001111 1101101101 1101001101 1110110101 0111101101 100100 0101110100 0101010101 1001000111 1101111111 0110010101 111101 1011111101 0100110101 1011001100 1101011101 0101111101 101101 1011111101 1111111111 0101111111 0100010111 0101110101 111110 0101000101 0111110111 1111111111 11011010101 1111110100 1011011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
to
Anaphora
the
