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
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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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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