This is an analysis of My Friend Has Fled by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
My friend has fled! alas, my friend has fled,
And left me nought but tears and pain behind!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabba cddceec daaXeeXXadda
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,12,
- Metre: 1111011111 1111111101 1101011101 1110111111 10010111101 1111010101 0101000011 0101110101 1011110111 1100010101 1101011101 1111111101 1111010101 0101011111 1111110111 1101110111 0101010101 1001111101 1111110111 11010111011 1011111111 0011010111 0101110101 0100110101 1101010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 25
Repeated words/phrases
my, and, her
