News at Eleven: Rumi does it (in his ghazals), too.

This was a poetry that wasn't published, you see. It was memorized. So the only way you could tell who had written it is by the name at the end. So that's just enforced on them so to speak, by the situation.

So it brings something very different into the poem, when you have to look (that way) in the last stanza. You can see that this throws a complication into a poem that's terrifically interesting.

from American-Statesman: On poetry and sorrows: a short conversation with Robert Bly

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