Lady That Hast My Heart by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Lady That Hast My Heart that begins with:

LADY that hast my heart within thy hand,
Thou heed'st me not; and if thou turn thine ear...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccb dedeffd bgbgXXb bbbhiib jkjkbhj alal
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011110111 1111101111 1001111101 0101011101 1101001101 111110101 1011011111 1101010101 1111110011 1111010111 1111010101 1111011101 1101011101 1101001101 1111011111 0100010001 1011001111 1101011001 0111111101 1001010100 1001011111 1111010101 01010101010 11111101101 110010100010 1101110111 1011110101 1001010001 1100111101 1100010101 1111001111 0101010011 1101011101 11111011010 1101001101 1101011101 0101100101 0101010101 11000100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, of, that are repeated.

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