This is an analysis of the poem The Mourner For The Barmecides that begins with:
Fall'n was the House of Giafar; and its name,
The high romantic name of Barmecide,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdeef egebhhhX gcecbiijaX bhghgXfdjXhbebekdhgi ekcedbd lljj eeee iigg bbjj lldd jjmm bbXX beehjiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,10,20,7,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 0101010100 0110010111 1011011101 1001001101 1111011101 1101011101 1100111 1100 1101010101 1101010111 0100110101 1101011111 1101011101 1001010101 0111010100 110101011 1001110101 01001111111 1011010111 0001011101 01110001001 001101001001 1111110101 100100101001 1100011101 1111010011 1101100101 0101110101 0101110101 1101010110 1001010111 0100010101 0101111111 1011010011 1101011100 1111011101 1011011101 1011010101 1111110001 0100010001 1111010101 11001000110 1001011101 0101010101 1001111101 1001110001 1001011101 1111011111 10011100101 1001010001 11110010101 1100001111111 111101011010101 001011111011001 10110111110001 11010101111101 11110111101111 110101001111101 11110001110101 11010011010101 1111101110101 01110101010011 011111011100111 1010111000011101 100110101100101010 10011011110111010 0010111010010001 011011101010101 11010101100111 011111011110101 101011101110101 11011101110101 110111011010101 110100011111001 101011101111101 101001100110101 10011111011101 111101010011001 111101011010111 110101011111110 1101110101 10101110101 11001010101 0011110101 10000100101011 1101011111 1011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, your, that, in, it, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, it, i are repeated.
The author used the same word 'the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thought is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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