This is an analysis of The Tulip by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
Perhaps the tulip know the fickleness
Of Fortune's smile, for on her stalk's green shaft…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXa X
- Stanza lengths: 3,1,
- Metre: 0101010100 0101110111 1101110100 0101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 4
