This is an analysis of Cypress And Tulip by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
Cypress and Tulip and sweet Eglantine,
Of these the tale from lip to lip is sent;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcca Xbdbeed fgfghhX iaXaddi jgXgiij X
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,7,1,
- Metre: 1011011101 0101010101 1111110011 1111010100 01101011101 1001010101 0110010101 0101010101 0101010111 0110111011 1111101111 0101011111 10111011101 1001011111 1111010100 1111010001 1101010100 10110110101 11110100111 0101001101 1011101101 1110010100 1011110101 1001011000 1100111101 0111011101 1111010101 10110010100 00110101001 0100010101 0101010100 0110000101 1100110101 01010011101 1101011001 0101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
of, thy
