Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 43 by Saadi Shirazi: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 43 that begins with:

A pious man saw an acrobat in great dudgeon, full of wrath and foaming at the mouth. He asked: ‘What is the matter with this fellow?’ A bystander...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XabbXXba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010111101011010111010111100100010011011110101101011010010101011110100111 01011011100 1111011101001110 011101011 0011000101101 111001111001 1010110110100 0110001 01011010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 77 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 14

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thou, to are repeated.

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

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