Analysis of Every day I bear a burden
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )
Every day I bear a burden, and I bear this calamity for a purpose:
I bear the discomfort of cold and December's snow in hope of spring.
Before the fattener-up of all who are lean, I drag this so emaciated body;
Though they expel me from two hundred cities, I bear it for the sake of the love of a prince;
Though my shop and house be laid waste, I bear it in fidelity to a tulip bed.
God's love is a very strong fortress; I carry my soul's baggage inside a fortress.
I bear the arrogance of every stonehearted stranger for the sake of a friend, of one long-suffering;
For the sake of his ruby I dig out mountains and mine; for the sake of that rose-laden one I endure a thorn.
For the sake of those two intoxicating eyes of his, like the intoxicated I endure crop sickness;
For the sake of a quarry not to be contained in a snare, I spread out the snare and decoy of the hunter.
He said, "Will you bear this sorrow till the Resurrection?" Yes, Friend, I bear it, I bear it.
My breast is the Cave and Shams-e Tabrizi is the Companion of the Cave.
Scheme | ABCDEABFAGHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100111010011101001010 11001011001010111 01011111111111010010 11011111010111101101101 111011111110010010101 111010110110111001010 1101001100110101101111100 1011110111100110111110110101 1011110100111100100101110 101101011101001111010011010 111111101001011111111 11101011110010101 |
Characters | 1,052 |
Words | 208 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 67 |
Words per line (avg) | 17 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 805 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 205 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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