This is an analysis of True Love by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
TRUE love has vanished from every heart;
What has befallen all lovers fair?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBaXcbbcdXdBaeeaafaffaaf ghghddddieieXf
- Stanza lengths: 24,14,
- Metre: 1111001001 110101101 10010101 110100110 1110101100 0100111101 010111101 11101001001 11101111 1011001110 10101101 110101101 00100100101 0101101101 1111100101 110100101 101111101 1100111001 111100101 110100100 10100110101 0101101001 10101101011 1110100101 0101111101 01001011001 111110101 1101001001 011101011 00101111101 01101101001 11101001001 100100111 11100111 1010101111 110100101 0101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 37
Repeated words/phrases
has, of
Anaphora
the, what, a
