This is an analysis of Rubaiyat 06 by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.

You are the moon and the sun is your slave;
As your slave, it like you must behave.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 1101101011 111011101 001011000011 11011111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

Repeated words/phrases

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