batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l1553-l1574

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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l1553-l1574
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
passage_locator:
  label: LXXI. / LXXII. / LXXIII. / LXXIV.; lines 1553-1574
  start: '1553'
  end: '1574'
  translation: The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam
  notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
    human review required.
canonical_text:
  quote: ''
  summary: Three quatrains lament the passing of spring and youth, imagine Love and
    the speaker conspiring with Fate to shatter and remake the scheme of things, and
    address a beloved moon while the heavenly moon will continue to rise over the
    garden after the speaker is gone.
  language: English
  quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
  text: Spring is said to vanish with the rose.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:2
  text: Youth is compared to a sweet-scented manuscript that closes.
  category: object
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:3
  text: A nightingale that sang in the branches is described as having flown away
    to an unknown place.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:4
  text: The speaker addresses Love and imagines conspiring with Fate to grasp the
    entire scheme of things.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: obs:5
  text: The speaker imagines shattering the scheme of things and remoulding it nearer
    to the heart's desire.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: obs:6
  text: The speaker addresses a 'Moon of my Delight' that is said to know no wane.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: obs:7
  text: The moon of heaven is said to rise again and later look through the same garden
    after the speaker in vain.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
figures:
- id: fig:1
  name_or_label: speaker
  description: The first-person voice lamenting transience and addressing Love and
    the Moon of Delight.
  role_refs:
  - role:1
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
- id: fig:2
  name_or_label: Love
  description: An addressed figure whom the speaker imagines conspiring with Fate.
  role_refs:
  - role:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: fig:3
  name_or_label: Fate
  description: A personified force with whom Love and the speaker might conspire.
  role_refs:
  - role:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: fig:4
  name_or_label: nightingale
  description: A bird that sang in the branches and has flown away to an unknown origin
    or destination.
  role_refs:
  - role:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: fig:5
  name_or_label: Moon of my Delight
  description: An addressed beloved or luminous figure described as knowing no wane.
  role_refs:
  - role:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: fig:6
  name_or_label: Moon of Heav'n
  description: The heavenly moon that rises again and will look through the same garden
    after the speaker.
  role_refs:
  - role:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
roles:
- id: role:1
  label: lamenting speaker
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: The speaker laments vanished spring and youth, imagines remaking the scheme
    of things, and anticipates absence from the garden.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
- id: role:2
  label: addressed companion in imagined remaking
  assigned_to:
  - fig:2
  basis: Love is addressed as one who could conspire with the speaker and Fate.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: role:3
  label: personified constraint or power
  assigned_to:
  - fig:3
  basis: Fate is named as a party with whom Love and the speaker might conspire.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: role:4
  label: departed singer
  assigned_to:
  - fig:4
  basis: The nightingale sang in the branches and has flown away.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: role:5
  label: addressed beloved image
  assigned_to:
  - fig:5
  basis: The speaker addresses the 'Moon of my Delight' as knowing no wane.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: role:6
  label: recurring celestial witness
  assigned_to:
  - fig:6
  basis: The moon of heaven rises again and will look through the same garden after
    the speaker.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
symbols:
- id: sym:1
  label: spring
  literal_form: Spring
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: sym:2
  label: rose
  literal_form: Rose
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: sym:3
  label: youth as manuscript
  literal_form: Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: sym:4
  label: nightingale in branches
  literal_form: nightingale in the Branches
  associated_figures:
  - fig:4
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: sym:5
  label: scheme of things
  literal_form: sorry Scheme of Things entire
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:3
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: sym:6
  label: heart's desire
  literal_form: Heart's Desire
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: sym:7
  label: moon
  literal_form: Moon of my Delight; Moon of Heav'n
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  - fig:6
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: sym:8
  label: garden
  literal_form: this same Garden
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:6
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
scenes:
- id: scene:1
  label: Vanishing spring and departed nightingale
  summary: The passage laments the disappearance of spring with the rose, the closing
    of youth, and the nightingale's unknown departure from the branches.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:4
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:2
  - sym:3
  - sym:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
- id: scene:2
  label: Imagined remaking of the scheme of things
  summary: The speaker addresses Love and imagines conspiring with Fate to grasp,
    shatter, and remould the whole scheme of things according to the heart's desire.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:3
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:5
  - sym:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: scene:3
  label: Moon rising over the garden after the speaker
  summary: The speaker addresses the Moon of Delight and contrasts it with the heavenly
    moon, which will rise again and look through the same garden after the speaker
    is absent.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:5
  - fig:6
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:7
  - sym:8
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
  label: vanishing spring and youth
  taxonomy_refs:
  - seasonal_cycle
  basis: Spring, the rose, youth, and the nightingale are presented as passing or
    departing.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The passage emphasizes loss and transience more than a full cyclical seasonal
    renewal.
- id: motif:2
  label: desire to remake the world
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: The speaker imagines Love and the speaker conspiring with Fate to shatter
    and remould the whole scheme of things nearer to the heart's desire.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  confidence: high
  cautions: No specific mythic creator figure or cosmogonic episode is described;
    this is a lyric wish.
- id: motif:3
  label: celestial recurrence outlasting the mortal speaker
  taxonomy_refs:
  - seasonal_cycle
  basis: The heavenly moon will rise again and look through the same garden after
    the speaker is gone.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The human absence is implied by 'after me--in vain' rather than narrated
    as a death scene.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
  type: quote
  locator: lines 1553-1558 / LXXII
  quote_or_summary: '"Spring should vanish with the Rose" and "Youth''s sweet-scented
    Manuscript should close."'
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
  type: quote
  locator: lines 1559-1560 / LXXII
  quote_or_summary: The nightingale that sang in the branches has flown, with its
    origin and destination unknown.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:3
  type: quote
  locator: lines 1562-1567 / LXXIII
  quote_or_summary: The speaker asks whether Love and the speaker could conspire with
    Fate to grasp, shatter, and remould the scheme of things nearer to the heart's
    desire.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:4
  type: quote
  locator: lines 1569-1574 / LXXIV
  quote_or_summary: The speaker addresses the 'Moon of my Delight'; the moon of heaven
    rises again and will later look through the same garden after the speaker in vain.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt and summary used for evidence.
confidence:
  extraction: high
  motif_candidates: medium
  comparison_claims: uncertain
  notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied English passage. Motif taxonomy
    mapping is cautious because the quatrains are lyric and symbolic rather than narrative
    myth episodes.
reviewer_status:
  status: needs_review
  reviewer: ''
  reviewed_at: ''
  notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
  No comparison claims were added because the passage does not itself support a specific cross-textual or historical comparison.
  batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
  custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg__l1553-l1574
  passage_sha256=7a64ecdc85bca0fe7e91f3ad2faa5eadeec157765a562d7f9e359e18ef175012