This is an analysis of The Bird Of Gardens by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
The bird of gardens sang unto the rose,
New blown in the clear dawn: 'Bow down thy head!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbddX XaeabbfdbXbbbdacacefa X
- Stanza lengths: 7,21,1,
- Metre: 0101011001 1100111111 1111010101 1011111111 1111011111 1101001101 01010101100 0101101100 1110011101 1101010111 1101110111 01100010101 0111101111 0101100100 1111010101 1001010101 0101010101 1011010001 1101110111 0101111011 1100111111 1101011101 01110000101 1101010101 11010100111 1011010001 0111111100 11111101001 0101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
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