Analysis of Come, Come, Whoever You Are

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



Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
It doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow

a thousand times
Come, yet again, come, come.


Scheme XXXX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 1110110 11010 1011010101 1101111011 0101 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 180
Words 33
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 2
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 68
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 02, 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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