Analysis of Two Friends
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
A certain person came to the Friend's door
and knocked.
'Who's there?'
'It's me.'
The Friend answered, 'Go away. There's no place
for raw meat at this table.'
The individual went wandering for a year.
Nothing but the fire of separation
can change hypocrisy and ego. The person returned
completely cooked,
walked up and down in front of the Friend's house,
gently knocked.
'Who is it?'
'You.'
'Please come in, my self,
there's no place in this house for two.
The doubled end of the thread is not what goes through
the eye of the needle.
It's a single-pointed, fined-down, thread end,
not a big ego-beast with baggage.'
Scheme | XAXXXB XXXXXAXCXCCBXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 0101011011 01 11 11 0110101111 1111110 001001100101 1010101010 11010001001001 0101 1101011011 101 111 1 11011 11101111 010110111111 011010 1010101111 101101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 606 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 14 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 234 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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