No Hope Comes My Way by Mirza Ghalib: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem No Hope Comes My Way that begins with:

No hope comes my way
No visage shows itself to me...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb bX cc bd db bd bX XX Xd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 11010101 1101110100 111101111 1101101011 1111101 1110010010010 1010111001010 00111011110 011111001 11110101 1001101101 111010011 11001011011 111111 11011111 11001010 101111001 10111010 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 69
  • Average number of words per stanza: 14
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • 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; i, you, not are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.

    The author used the same word i 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 you is repeated).

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