My Mother Was Fortune, My Father Generosity And Bounty by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem My Mother Was Fortune, My Father Generosity And Bounty that begins with:

My mother was fortune, my father generosity and bounty; I
am joy, son of joy, son of joy, son of joy. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXcXcbdeabaeXXdXXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110110101001101 11101101101 0101101110001000101 1110101111 010100110110010011 1000101000010010 11101101110100001 1011000100010101001 10 1011111001111 1001001110111 1111011001110 011011001101111 10111101011111010 111101101010 1100110010110101001 11010101100 101111110101011 00101011010110010 01010 11011111110011001 0101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 220
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; joy, and, of, son, into are repeated.

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