Analysis of There Are A Hundred Kinds Of Prayer (Quatrain in Farsi with English Translation)

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



emrôz chô har rôz, kharâb-êm kharâb
ma-g'shâ dar andêsha-wo bar gîr rabâb
Sad gôna namâz-ast-o rukû`-ast-o sujûd
ân-râ ke jamâl-é dôst bâsh-ad miHrâb

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Today, like every day, we are ruined, ruined (by 'wine').
Don't open the door of worry, but take up the lute!
There are a hundred kinds of prayer, bowing, and prostration6
For the one whose prayer-niche, is the beauty of the Beloved   


Scheme AAAA XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111111 11101111111 1111111111111 111111111111 1 011100111101011 1100111011101 11010111100010 10111110101001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 497
Words 69
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 5
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 135
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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