This is an analysis of Ghazal 79 by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.

The heavenly breeze comes to this estate,
I sit with the wine and a lovely mate.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXaXaXaaaXaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0100110001 1100110101 110101011 0100101011 01111101 1111010101 010111001 1010101101 111001101 1000100101 110111011 101111011 1010110101 0100110111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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