This is an analysis of Stop Being So Religious by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
What do sad people have in common?
It seems they have all built a shrine to the past, And often they go there and do a strange wail and worship.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X a b ab X X
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,2,1,1,
- Metre: 111101010 0111110100111011111011110 1000100100 0001 101010 1 1
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 7
Repeated words/phrases
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