This is an analysis of Where Is My Ruined Life ? by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
WHERE is my ruined life, and where the fame
Of noble deeds?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdXd dede cdfd cefe ghgh eheh didi
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1011011101 0101 1111111101 1101 1100010100 1001 1001010100 1001 0101110101 1101 1001010101 1001 1101010100 0101 1111011111 1001 0111110100 1101 10001011111 1001 1011011111 0111 1111101101 1101 1101010001 1011 111111001100 1111 0110110111 0101 1011101101 1101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
where, and
Anaphora
where
