This is an analysis of The Secret Draught Of Wine by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
THE secret draught of wine and love repressed
Are joys foundationless--then come whate'er…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXabcXc dbdbebe fdfdgdg eaeahah gXghehe Xiei
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,7,4,
- Metre: 0101011101 11100011100 1110011101 1011010111 01010101001 1101100100 11010111001 1101011101 1111010101 1001011111 1101110111 0100111101 1010101101 1001111111 1111111111 1111010101 10010101001 11010100101 01001010101 1101010101 1001010011 1101111111 0111001001 0101010101 0111010111 0101010100 0101110111 1101110100 01001010001 1101100110 1011111111 10001111100 0111110011 1111110101 101101010 1101010100 1101011101 1111110101 1011010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 39
Repeated words/phrases
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