This is an analysis of Ghazal 41 by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
Though the wine is joyous, and the wind, flowers sorts
Harp music and scent of wine, the officer reports.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabaXabaXaXaaa X
- Stanza lengths: 14,1,
- Metre: 101010101101 1101101010001 0111101010101 1010111101 1110111111 10101111101 01101111101 10111000110101 111100100100 10110111011 011101110101 111110111 10110010111101 0010101011001 010110100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
wine, and
