To Be A Slave Of Intensity by Kabir: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem To Be A Slave Of Intensity that begins with:

Friend, hope for the guest while you are alive.
Jump into experience while you are alive!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaab acd cefeXbd XXXcf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,7,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111101 100010011101 10101101 11110001001011 0111111101 111 101010 00101010100010 101010010 101100 1011011 011101 10101101010001001 0111000110011101010101010 1100011110100 010011 1010101010110000100001010111101 111110101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; you, while, alive, in are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines alive is repeated).

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