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 |
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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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