This is an analysis of Rubaiyat 36 by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.

Every flower its beauty bestows,
Your lips the dearest gems dispose.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 1001001001 11010101 1111011 0011100101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4