The poem, which is part of a ghazal by Sa'di, is in meter 22 with each "LLH-LHLH-HLLH-LHLH-H" counting as one verse. In this recording, the performer adds silence intervals between the two halves of each verse. Each line in the above gloss therefore corresponds to a half-verse (i.e. half-mesrā`) in the original poem.