Analysis of Confused and Distraught

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )



Again I am raging,
I am in such a state by your soul that every
bond you bind, I break, by your soul.
I am like heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow;
I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul.

My joy is of your doing, my hangover of your thorn;
whatever side you turn your face,
I turn mine, by your soul.
I spoke in error;
it is not surprising to speak in error in this state,
for this moment I cannot tell cup from wine, by your soul.
I am that madman in bonds who binds the
'divs'; I, the madman,am a Solomon with the 'divs',
by your soul.

Whatever form other than love raises up its head from my
heart, forthwith I drive it out of the court of my heart,
by your soul.
Come, you who have departed, for the thing that departs
comes back; neither you are that,
by my soul, nor I am that, by your soul.

Disbeliever, do not conceal disbelief in your soul, for I will recite
the secret of your destiny, by your soul.
Out of love of Sham-e Tabrizi,
through wakefulness or nightrising,
like a spinning mote I am distraught, by your soul.


Scheme axbxb xcbxxbxcB xxBxxb xbcab
Poetic Form
Metre 011110 1101011111100 11111111 111101011010111 111101111111 1111110110111 1011111 111111 11010 11101011010011 11101101111111 111101110 11010100101 111 10110111011111 1111111101111 111 1111010101101 1110111 1111111111 111010101111101 01011100111 1111111 1111 101011101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,051
Words 213
Sentences 10
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 9, 6, 5
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 199
Words per stanza (avg) 53
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 14, 2023

1:03 min read
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Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, and more popularly simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. more…

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