This is an analysis of O Cup Bearer by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
OH Cup-bearer, set my glass afire
With the light of wine! oh minstrel, sing:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbccb dedeffg ahahhhh XeXgaaX dadaffa hhhX
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,7,4,
- Metre: 111011101 001011101 0110011010 010010101 110101111 110111101 010110111 11010001 110101011 0100100101 1111101011 110101111 011111111 00100111100 1101010001 110100001 10100110101 10110110011 010101111 1111011001 10101001001 1101100101 0111101011 0101101111 111101100 1101011001 101110101 1111101111 0011101111 100111111 0101101011 1010100111 1111110001 111100111 1111111001 0101110101 010100101 1101101001 101101000
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 39
Repeated words/phrases
to, thou
Anaphora
the
