Analysis of Rumi

Reha Ruhani

Rumi, were you not a lie?
I asked.
This guest house is never barren of
Wild feelings!
A bee croons inside
A heroic roar at times

This guest house is never barren of
Wild feelings

Scheme xxABxx AB
Poetic Form
Metre 101101 11 111110101 110 01101 0010111 111110101 110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 185
Words 41
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 2
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 70
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted by rehakeer on May 22, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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