This is an analysis of Not Worth The Toil! by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
NOT all the sum of earthly happiness
Is worth the bowed head of a moment's pain,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd bebefgfg bhbhcgXg gfgfifif gigijaja
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1101010100 0101100101 1011111101 1111110111 1111011101 10011010101 1101010111 1101 1001011111 1101011101 1101010001 1011010101 1100111111 10010101111 0101101101 1101 1111011101 1111011101 01011010111 1101011101 1101010001 1011011111 0101010100 1101 0101010101 1001011101 00011101011 1111010001 1111011101 1111010001 0101010111 11011 1101000111 1100010001 1101010101 0101001111 1111000101 1111010001 1101010011 1101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
i, of
Anaphora
not
