This is an analysis of Ghazal 35 by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.

Keep to your own affairs, why do you fault me?
My heart has fallen in love, what has befallen thee?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXababaXabXba X
  • Stanza lengths: 14,1,
  • Metre: 10110111111 1111001110101 001001111010 100101111011 01010111101 0101001111 01001100110111 0100011011011 11100111110 11001011011001 11101101001111 10011001000100 1011101100101 0101010101 010110100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

of, my

Anaphora

the