This is an analysis of Rubaiyat 22 by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.

I needed to hang on to her curly ring,
Help me please, let my affairs take wing.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 11001100101 111110111 1011101111 110110011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

Repeated words/phrases

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