In this poem, Hafez is visited in the night by a former beloved, and it becomes clear through metaphorical language that the encounter is successful.
It is a catalectic metre since the last foot fa'ilātun lacks the final syllable and becomes fa'ilun.
[2] This metre is fairly common in classical Persian lyric poetry, and is used in 143 (27%) of the 530 poems of Hafez.
[3] The gender of the person described is not made clear in the Persian; it could be a man or a woman, and is possibly left deliberately ambiguous by Hafez.
However, in view of the long tradition of homoerotic Persian love poetry in the centuries before Hafez, it is most likely that the person is male.
[4] "Many of the unusual attributes of the 'beloved' can be understood by recalling that in the classical lyric poetry the image of the poet's sweetheart refers more often than not to a male figure, normally a youth".