batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l8749-l8976
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passage_locator:
label: E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR
KHAYYAM; lines 8749-8976
start: '8749'
end: '8976'
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: A sequence of quatrains contrasts wine, love, and present enjoyment with
anxiety, reason, religious hypocrisy, cosmic determinism, sin, divine mercy, death,
and bodily dissolution. The passage includes images of the heavens as a wheel
or lantern, the soul as borrowed and prisoned, life as a temporary inn, earth
as a carpet over sleepers, final judgment as a black record washed white, humans
as clay or future jugs, and lovers as twin compasses circling toward one point.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Wine is presented as surpassing metaphysical speculation about what has been
and what will be, and as supplying a key to riddles.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The speaker addresses sinners and says Allah is both merciful and just, with
mercy able to absolve even crumbling dust.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The speaker addresses the wheeling skies and asks to be loosened from their
chain of tyrannies.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: A City Mufti is accused of going astray more than the wine-drinking speaker,
who contrasts drinking grape-blood with the Mufti drinking the blood of men.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The speaker calls spirits prisoned and lent for a day, and says wine may free
them for a while from seasonal bondage.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: Khayyam is described as receiving quittance at Death's hand, shedding life
like a tree sheds leaves, and later having ashes sifted.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The wheel of heaven is likened to a revolving lamp-shade or magic lantern,
with the sun as candlestick, the earth as shade, and humans as trembling forms
portrayed upon it.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The speaker says he did not mix his own clay, spin his own web, or write good
and evil deeds on his forehead.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: Life is framed as a temporary inn that people will quit before marching with
comrades who have marched for seven thousand years.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: Iblis is invoked in an allusion in which a single drop of wine would have
prevented his refusal to worship Adam.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: A dancer or beloved is addressed with praise of Narcissus eyes while grape-juice
and many cups are poured.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: The speaker says he has only one helper who knows his sorry condition.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:13
text: The speaker attributes his undoing to circling heavens and base lusts, and
says he lacks wit or sense to abandon worldly hopes and allures.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:14
text: The earth is described as a green carpet on which many sleepers lie, with
others hidden beneath it and others associated with the desert of Nonentity.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:15
text: The speaker describes himself as a pilgrim sustained by divine nearness and
expects grace on the last day to wash a black record white or make it disappear.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:16
text: The speaker says he does not tremble at death itself, which is true, but fears
dying because of his ill life.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:17
text: The speaker urges taking jugs and filling them with wine before grim potters
make jugs out of human beings.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: obs:18
text: A raw divine is told to keep his beads and saintly show while the speaker
keeps a cheerful sweetheart and wine.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: obs:19
text: The speaker says he wars against lusts in vain, feels shame over ill deeds,
trusts in absolution, and expects shame to remain.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: obs:20
text: Love and the speaker are compared to twin compasses with one body and two
heads, wandering around one center and finally agreeing in one point.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
- id: obs:21
text: The passage says humans will not stay long here, so wine and sweethearts should
not be avoided, and the question of earth's eternity or transience does not matter
because one must go.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
- id: obs:22
text: The speaker says he goes to the mosque not to pray but to steal a prayer-mat,
and the note explains this as a satire on praying to be seen by others.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:22
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Khayyam or first-person speaker
description: A first-person voice who drinks wine, criticizes religious authorities,
appeals to divine mercy, reflects on sin, death, and transience, and is named
as Khayyam in one quatrain.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:19
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Allah / Thou / One helper
description: A divine figure addressed as merciful and just, near to the pilgrim,
able to absolve sins and wash the black record white, and described as the speaker's
only helper.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:12
- ev:15
- ev:19
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: City Mufti and raw divine
description: Religious authority figures addressed by the speaker; the Mufti is
accused of bloodthirstiness and the raw divine of chiding the speaker's drinking
and libertinism.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:18
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Death, dustmen, and grim potters
description: Personified or occupational agents associated with death, ashes, sifting,
and making jugs from human beings.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:17
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Iblis
description: A Koranic figure invoked as having refused to worship Adam; the quatrain
imagines wine changing that refusal.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Adam
description: A figure whom Iblis refused to worship in the allusion cited by the
note.
role_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Love, sweetheart, or beloved
description: A beloved or love-figure appears as a dancer with Narcissus eyes, a
cheerful sweetheart, and the addressed counterpart in the twin-compasses image.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:18
- ev:20
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Wheeling skies or circling heavens
description: The heavens are addressed or described as wheeling and circling, and
as exerting tyrannies or contributing to the speaker's undoing.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:13
roles:
- id: role:1
label: wine-drinking mortal speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker repeatedly identifies with drinking, mortality, sin, and appeals
for mercy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:19
- id: role:2
label: merciful divine judge and helper
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Allah is called merciful and just, able to absolve sin, sustain the pilgrim,
wash the black record, and act as the speaker's helper.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:12
- ev:15
- ev:19
- id: role:3
label: religious critic or hypocritical authority
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The Mufti and raw divine are addressed as figures who judge or chide the
speaker while being criticized for injustice or show.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:18
- ev:22
- id: role:4
label: agents of death and bodily dissolution
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Death gives quittance, ashes are sifted, and potters are imagined making
jugs from human bodies.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:17
- id: role:5
label: sinner seeking absolution
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker confesses ill deeds, lusts, shame, fear of dying because of ill
life, and trust in absolution.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:19
- id: role:6
label: rebellious allusive figure
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Iblis is named as the one who refused to worship Adam in the allusion.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:7
label: beloved or love-counterpart
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The figure is praised, associated with sweetheart imagery, and paired with
the speaker in the compass image.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:18
- ev:20
- id: role:8
label: cosmic constraint
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The skies or heavens are described as wheeling or circling and as binding
or undoing the speaker.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:13
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: wine, cup, grape-blood, and jugs
literal_form: Wine, cups, grape-juice, blood of grapes, and wine-filled jugs
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:5
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:17
- ev:18
- ev:21
- id: sym:2
label: wheel of heaven and revolving lantern
literal_form: Wheel of heaven, revolving lamp-shade, sun as candlestick, earth as
shade, and trembling human forms
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:3
label: chain of tyrannies
literal_form: A chain attributed to the wheeling skies
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: clay, web, and forehead writing
literal_form: Mixed clay, spun web of silk and wool, and deeds written on the forehead
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:5
label: temporary inn and ancient march
literal_form: An inn to be quit and a march with comrades of seven thousand years
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:6
label: earth's green carpet and desert of Nonentity
literal_form: Green carpet of earth, sleepers on and beneath it, and the desert
of Nonentity
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: sym:7
label: black record washed white
literal_form: A black record on the last day made white or made to disappear by
grace
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: sym:8
label: human body as clay or future jug
literal_form: Human beings imagined as material from which grim potters make jugs
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: sym:9
label: twin compasses and one center
literal_form: Twin compasses with one body and two heads circling one center and
meeting at one point
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
- id: sym:10
label: mosque, prayer-mat, and beads
literal_form: Mosque, prayer-mat, weary beads, and saintly show
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- ev:22
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Wine against riddles, anxiety, and reason
summary: The speaker repeatedly urges wine as a response to metaphysical riddles,
worry about past and future, and dull reason.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:17
- id: scene:2
label: Appeals to mercy amid sin and judgment
summary: The speaker addresses divine mercy, confesses sin and shame, and expects
grace on the last day to erase or whiten the record of wrongdoing.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:15
- ev:19
- id: scene:3
label: Critique of religious authorities
summary: The speaker contrasts his wine-drinking with the Mufti's violence or injustice,
rejects the raw divine's chiding, and satirizes outward mosque piety through the
prayer-mat image.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:18
- ev:22
- id: scene:4
label: Cosmic constraint and human helplessness
summary: The speaker addresses the wheeling skies and describes the heavens as a
revolving lantern where humans appear as trembling forms; he also denies authorship
of his own clay, web, or written deeds.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:13
- id: scene:5
label: Departure, death, and bodily dissolution
summary: Human life is represented as temporary lodging, a march with ancient comrades,
and a process in which life is shed, ashes are sifted, and bodies become material
for jugs.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:9
- ev:14
- ev:16
- ev:17
- ev:21
- id: scene:6
label: Lover pair as twin compasses
summary: The speaker addresses Love through the image of two compass-points joined
in one body, circling a center and finally meeting at one point.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
- id: scene:7
label: Iblis, Adam, and the single drop of wine
summary: A Koranic allusion is recast so that a drop of wine would have made Iblis
worship Adam rather than refuse.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Wine as key to wisdom and release from anxiety
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Wine is said to supply the key to riddles, to free prisoned spirits for a
while, and to displace discussion of days, years, past, and future.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:17
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage may be literal, satirical, or mystical in reception; the extraction
does not decide among these readings.
- id: motif:2
label: Divine mercy overriding sin at judgment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Allah is merciful though just; the sinner is told not to despair, and the
speaker expects grace on the last day to wash away a black record.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:15
- ev:19
confidence: high
cautions: The motif is expressed in devotional and penitential language rather than
in a narrative judgment scene.
- id: motif:3
label: Life as temporary lodging and inevitable departure
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
basis: The passage says people will quit the inn and march with ancient comrades,
and that one must go whether the earth is eternal or transient.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:21
confidence: high
cautions: The destination of the departure is not mapped in detail.
- id: motif:4
label: Body returned to dust, clay, ashes, and vessels
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
basis: The body is associated with clay, crumbling dust, ashes, and jugs made by
potters from human beings.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:17
confidence: medium
cautions: The imagery strongly marks death and material transformation, but explicit
rebirth is not stated.
- id: motif:5
label: Cosmic wheel and constrained human agency
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: The heavens are figured as wheeling or circling, tyrannizing the speaker,
and displaying humans as trembling forms in a revolving lantern; the speaker denies
creating his own clay or written deeds.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:13
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference is approximate; the passage supports fatalistic
cosmic imagery more directly than a formal duality myth.
- id: motif:6
label: Pilgrim sustained by divine nearness
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: The speaker asks how the pilgrim can faint while Thou art near, in the context
of trust in divine grace.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
confidence: medium
cautions: The pilgrimage is a brief metaphor rather than a developed quest narrative.
- id: motif:7
label: Two lovers circling toward union
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
basis: Love and the speaker are compared to twin compasses, distinct as two heads
yet joined in one body and finally agreeing in one point.
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
confidence: medium
cautions: The quatrain can be read as a love conceit; mystical union is a candidate
motif but not explicitly named.
- id: motif:8
label: Satire of religious hypocrisy through sacred object theft
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_theft
basis: The speaker claims to go to the mosque not to pray but to steal a prayer-mat,
and the note explains this as praying to be seen by men and a satire on hypocrisy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:22
confidence: low
cautions: The taxonomy reference is tentative because the theft is satirical and
symbolic rather than a mythic acquisition of a sacred object.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The note to the quatrain about quitting the inn and marching with ancient
comrades explicitly directs comparison with a Hafiz rubai.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Hafiz, Ruba'i 10, as cited in the note to quatrain 312
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: low
limitations: The passage provides only the instruction to compare Hafiz, not the
text of Hafiz's rubai or a detailed shared motif.
- id: claim:2
claim: The editor notes that the twin-compasses figure resembles a similar figure
used by Donne.
claim_level: visual_similarity
target: A compass conceit in Donne, as cited by the editorial note to quatrain 323
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage cites a literary resemblance, not historical contact or
shared mythic inheritance.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 8749-8754, quatrain 304
quote_or_summary: The eternal past and future surpass human experience and theory;
wine in joyful seasons supplies the key to riddles.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
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- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: quatrain 305
quote_or_summary: Allah is called merciful though just; the sinner is told not to
despair because mercy may absolve crumbling dust.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; concise summary used.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: quatrain 306
quote_or_summary: The speaker addresses the wheeling skies and asks to be freed
from their chain of tyrannies.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; concise summary used.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: quatrain 307 and note
quote_or_summary: The speaker tells the City Mufti that the speaker drinks grape-blood
while the Mufti drinks the blood of men; the note says this alludes to selling
justice by Muftis.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; concise summary used.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: quatrain 308 and note
quote_or_summary: Drinking is urged in place of anxiety over past and future; prisoned
spirits are said to be lent for a day and briefly freed from season's bondage.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; concise summary used.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: quatrain 309
quote_or_summary: When Khayyam receives quittance from Death and sheds life like
leaves, he will sift the world before dustmen sift his ashes.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
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- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: quatrain 310 and note
quote_or_summary: The wheel of heaven is likened to a revolving lamp-shade or magic
lantern, with sun as candlestick, earth as shade, and people as trembling forms
portrayed on it.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
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- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: quatrain 311
quote_or_summary: The speaker denies mixing his own clay, spinning his own web,
or writing his good and evil deeds on his forehead.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; concise summary used.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: quatrain 312 and note
quote_or_summary: The speaker says not to forecast tomorrow's fears, since tomorrow
they quit this inn and march with comrades of seven thousand years; the note cites
Adam's creation and says to compare Hafiz, Ruba'i 10.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
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- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: quatrain 313 and note
quote_or_summary: The cup is not to be left unused; had Iblis swallowed one drop,
he would not have refused to worship Adam; the note refers to Koran ii.31.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
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- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: quatrain 314 and note
quote_or_summary: A dancer or beloved is invited to dance while grape-juice is poured;
Narcissus eyes are glossed as languid.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
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- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: quatrain 315 and note
quote_or_summary: The speaker closes the door of hope and says he has only one helping
hand that knows his sorry case; the note calls it a lament over his condition.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
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- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: quatrain 316
quote_or_summary: The speaker swears by circling heavens and says he is undone by
base lusts, unable to abandon worldly hopes or shun the world's allures.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
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- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: quatrain 317 and note
quote_or_summary: On earth's green carpet many sleepers lie, others are hidden beneath
it, and others people the desert of Nonentity; the note identifies sleepers on
earth with superstition and ignorance.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
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- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: quatrain 318 and note
quote_or_summary: The speaker trusts divine grace, asks how the pilgrim can faint
while Thou art near, and says grace on the last day will wash his black record
white or make it disappear.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
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- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: quatrain 319 and note
quote_or_summary: The speaker does not dread leaving the world or death itself,
which is certain, but fears dying because of his ill life.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
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- id: ev:17
type: summary
locator: quatrain 320
quote_or_summary: The speaker urges shaking off reason, ceasing to discuss days
and years, and filling jugs with wine before grim potters make jugs of them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
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- id: ev:18
type: summary
locator: quatrain 321
quote_or_summary: A raw divine is asked why he chides the speaker for drinking and
libertinism; the divine has beads and saintly show, while the speaker asks to
keep sweetheart and wine.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; concise summary used.
- id: ev:19
type: summary
locator: quatrain 322
quote_or_summary: The speaker says he wars against lusts in vain, thinks on ill
deeds with shame, trusts in absolution, and says shame must remain.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; concise summary used.
- id: ev:20
type: summary
locator: quatrain 323 and note
quote_or_summary: Love and the speaker are likened to twin compasses, one body with
two heads, circling one center and finally agreeing in one point; the note compares
Donne's similar figure.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; concise summary used.
- id: ev:21
type: summary
locator: quatrain 324
quote_or_summary: The speaker says people will not stay here long, so avoiding wine
and sweethearts is folly; because one must go, the earth's eternity or transience
does not matter.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; concise summary used.
- id: ev:22
type: summary
locator: quatrain 325 and note
quote_or_summary: The speaker says he goes to the mosque not to pray but to steal
a prayer-mat; the note explains stealing a prayer-mat as praying to be seen by
men and calls it satire on hypocrisy.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; concise summary used.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: low
notes: The literal imagery is clear, but several motif-family assignments are interpretive
because the passage is lyric, satirical, and editorially annotated rather than
narrative myth.
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: |-
Used only the supplied passage and metadata. Available taxonomy references were applied only where the passage supplied direct or cautious support.
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