When I Love You by Nizar Qabbani: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem When I Love You that begins with:

When I love you
A new language springs up,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbcXbXd eedXbXacddbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111 0110011 110110010 0101110 110101001 11011010010 10110111001001 0101101010110 110011 1111111111 10010110010101 111101010111101 010100010 1010 0010101001 111111 101100 010101 010001000100010 1110100110101101 110100111001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 414
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; new, and, of, against are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word against is repeated.

    The author used the same word when 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 arrives is repeated).

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  • summary of When I Love You;
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