This is an analysis of Rubaiyat 19 by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.

You can buy everyone with gold;
Either in one shot, or slowly are sold.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 11110101 1001111011 1000101001 1011010101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4