Analysis of All through eternity

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



All through eternity
Beauty unveils His exquisite form
in the solitude of nothingness;
He holds a mirror to His Face
and beholds His own beauty.
he is the knower and the known,
the seer and the seen;
No eye but His own
has ever looked upon this Universe.

His every quality finds an expression:
Eternity becomes the verdant field of Time and Space;
Love, the life-giving garden of this world.
Every branch and leaf and fruit
Reveals an aspect of His perfection-
They cypress give hint of His majesty,
The rose gives tidings of His beauty.

Whenever Beauty looks,
Love is also there;
Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek
Love lights Her fire from that flame.
When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night
Love comes and finds a heart
entangled in tresses.
Beauty and Love are as body and soul.
Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond.

They have together
since the beginning of time-
Side by side, step by step.


Scheme AXXBACXCX DBXXDAA XXXXXXXXX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 110100 100111001 00101100 11010111 011110 11010001 01001 11111 110101110 110010011010 01000101011101 1011010111 10010101 011111010 1101111100 011101110 010101 11101 0101010101 11010111 1101001111 110101 010010 1001111001 1010111010 11010 1001011 111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 886
Words 166
Sentences 10
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 9, 7, 9, 3
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 180
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 28, 2023

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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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