This is an analysis of the poem Mohammed Al Durra that begins with:
Mohammed,
nestles in the bosom of his father, a bird afraid...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXadefbcgchagieXcdaaigajjekebjkaiXbXjgccackkcajjhfaakaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 59,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010 10001000100101 00010110011 00101110 110110101 010 1001101 100111 11011 0110101101011 011100011110 00101010110 10111001 110101010 010 10110011110 0111100101110 0111111101 0011010101010 0101010001010 001001101010011 10100111001 011011111 101100111 110011010 010 1010100101011 0100101111010101 011010010110 1111010111 10011011 11001101 111110110 011011001110 010 010110010110 0100110101 110010010010001 10100011 01111 0111110 01101110 0111010 01011010 11110111111 01010101 10111010110 11101110 010 110101110 010110 1010 1101 101001001 010 101010010 1111101 001001 010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2080
- Average number of words per stanza: 384
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, his, clear, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, his are repeated.
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