This is an analysis of Rubaiyat 02 by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.

Pick up the joy giving wine and come hither.
Temptations of mean foes decline and come hither.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 11011011110 010011011110 110001111111 100111011110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

Repeated words/phrases

and, come, hither

Epiphora

hither