This is an analysis of The Rose Has Flushed Red by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
The rose has flushed red, the bud has burst,
And drunk with joy is the nightingale…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbXcbc addaddd effedfd ddddgdg hddh
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,4,
- Metre: 011110111 110100100 110100111 1100100110 1011010101 010100101 111101011001 11101101101 011100101 111101111 1010110111 101010010101 0110101101 10110101111 011110101 1110101001 1101111001 110011101 10010111101 10110100101 0010110111 1101101001 1010110111 1111100101 00100100101 111101001 0111101011 111100101 1011100111 1110100101 110111101 0101101111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, to, thee
Anaphora
and
