This is an analysis of Drops Of His Heart's Blood by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
THE nightingale with drops of his heart's blood
Had nourished the red rose, then came a wind,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabb cXcbcaa cXcccdd dede
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,4,
- Metre: 0100010011 1100111101 11010101001 0101010101 1001010100 101011111 0101111101 1011110011 11110100100 1111010001 1101010001 1101010101 1111111101 1100111001 11010011111 0111010100 1001110111 0111011101 0101010101 0101111011 1101000111 1111010101 11110101001 0111110101 1101101111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 25
Repeated words/phrases
of, my
