This is an analysis of Sweet Melody by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
Come so the rose we may spread, and, let wine into the goblet flow.
The roof of the sky we may cleave; and a new way seek more aglow.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggaa X
- Stanza lengths: 16,1,
- Metre: 1101111111000101 0100111110111101 01100100101110 010111110010110 011011000100101 000100010101011101 1001110010100011001 11110111100101101 1100010001001011 101100101011101 01011001010111 110011101011 10100100010010111 11111110001001001 0100111001111 101100101111 010110010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
and, may, we, of
Anaphora
the, come
