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 |
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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
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