This is an analysis of Rubaiyat 31 by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
My life has only brought me sorrow;
Love’s good and bad only taught me sorrow.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXa
- Stanza lengths: 4,
- Metre: 111101110 1011101110 1100100101 1101101110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 4
Repeated words/phrases
only, my, me, sorrow
Anaphora
my
Epiphora
sorrow
