How those candles appeared to the eye as seven men.

بخش 91 - نمودن آن شمعها در نظر هفت مرد

Poet: Rumi

Metre: فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلن (رمل مسدس محذوف یا وزن مثنوی)

Rhyme: رد

Poems with the same metre and rhyme: 6

Poetic form: Masnavi

English translation: Nicholson
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هفت شمع اندر نظر شد هفت مَرد
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هفت شمع اندر نظر شد هفت مَرد

نورشان می‌شد به سقف لاژورد

The seven candles appeared to the eye as seven men: their light was mounting to the azure vault.

2

پیش آن انوار نور روز، دُرد

از صلابت نورها را می‌ستُرد

Beside those lights the daylight was (murky as) dregs: by their intensity they were obliterating (all other) lights.

Zameen

Poems with the Same Metre and Rhyme

Sources

Persian text source: Ganjoor