This is an analysis of Rubaiyat 09 by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
My broken heart’s sorrows are deep.
Painful, disturbed, broken my sleep.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXa
- Stanza lengths: 4,
- Metre: 11011011 10011011 011011111 110110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 4
