This is an analysis of the poem Ispahan that begins with:

Narren.
Hey! Sultan! Sultan! Troendes Behersker!...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXX XX XXb cde XXXXXcXcX cX XXXXXXfgXXXXXb ca XXhXXXXXcX Xa XXXXcX cX XXbXiXXXXXeX cX XjXXXX ccX XXaXXhXXXXjXXXXcXX ck XXbXXX cX Xk cXX XXXXa cXX XXX c X X cX XX caa Xj cXXXXX XXXXXXgXX cXcXgXXX cciXakXbXXifXXXXXXcXXXXhXlb XX XXXXX XXjhXi XX XeXXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,3,3,9,2,14,2,10,2,6,2,12,2,6,3,18,2,6,2,2,3,5,3,3,1,1,1,2,2,3,2,6,9,8,27,2,5,6,2,9,2,13,6,4,3,3,5,20,6,2,4,5,10,5,4,37,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 1101010100 0111011001 11111010 0111101110 111110001 10010 1101 10 11100 10111101 100 101 0111100 10 11 11010111 11011111110 11011101000 1111111011 111101111 101110011 1111 100 11111 10 10111 101010110 111101100 1111011101 010111010 10111111 110111011 11110111 110011101 1110110010 1101011101 110101110 1111 100 10111 10 10011100 11011001110 1101010101 111011110 1101101011 0011110 11111100 1011110110 10110100 10010 101 10 1010111 1101000101 111101110 11111110 111111110 100 110111 10 1110 1011001100 101110011 1101111111 10111110 1111011011 11110110011 11010111 11110111 1110001110 110 100 111100 10 1100110101 1101111 11001001000 111101111 1100010111 100 110111001 11 10 11011101 111111011 1110111110 110111110 11111110110 110011011 1111001100 111111111101 11111111 11110011111 1111111110 11111111 1111001111 1111011101 111111111 110111111101 111011010 100 110111 10 110 11011111 111011111 1101011111 11111000 100 10010 10 1 100 11110 01110 10 11111 1111111 11101100 110111 100 1111 111110011010 101 11111 10010111001011110110111111101 1101110001111101010101001100111111011100110011100010010000100010101001010 10011011100001111101101000111011010110111111010101101010111010111110010101111101110101011011110101111001111010111111011110111011011111101 100001100011101010111000101111111 100 110111111110 10 1011111110 100 11111101111 11111101111 10 0111011110 100 101111101 11111111 101010100 1001111011 11111110 10 1 111111111 0101011011 10110110110 11110101010 001111011 110111101001 1111011111 100 1110 110101111111 1111011111 1101111 1111100110 1111110101 1 1011 1101011100 11111101 1111111 110111111 1111011 1111101100 1101001101 1001101101 11011110 1101101111 11111111 111111111 111000110 110110111 11011101 01011111010 10011101110 11010111110 110111111 1100101101 110111100 1111101100 10111100 1110011010 1111111110 1111111 100 11010010 10 1100110110 11111110 11101111 111010101 100 111111101 11010101010 1100010100 1100011111 110110111 10 1111110100 100 10101100110 1100110111 111111111 1111111110 1011011101 111111111 0011010111 10111111 101 1101111111 100 111110110 00110111 111111111 111111011 1101111111 01111110 11011111110 1010001111010 110110111 101111111 1101111101 111101 10 1010 1001101101 101111111 011101111 101100111 100 1111110100 1111001011 110 10 111110 1101 010 101 11010 100 1 111011110 101101101 110101111 010 110111101 100111110 1110100010 11111111 1110101111 1111011010 111111100 0101011010 01001111 111011101 1011011010 11111111 1111100101 11111111000 10101110 11110110 1111111010 1101101110 111101111 100 111111111 110 11111011010111 101010 1111011110 010101 110011101 100 110100 1111110111 010111010010101101010101111100011001111001011 10 11011111011011101110 1111001100 11100110 1111 100 11011 111110111 11101001 1111101101 110111111 0101001 110001100 010111101 11101101010 101100 11011111 0011011010 111101110 111100111011001100101111101010 100 1101101001 1111101 111110111 10 1010111110 1111110110 1011110101 11010101101 1111011111 11011111 111110010 111010011 111101110 1110011111 110110010 1101111101 1111111010 1111110011 110110111 111111000 1111111 11110111000 1111111 111111111 101110111 1111111110 1011111101 0100110010 111010101 10110111 101 1111101111 1111011111 10110111110 1101111 1111101010 111101010 10111111010 1111011010 1011110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 57
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 343
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, og, saa, det, den, for, eders, sin, at, i, med, fra, naade, er, blindv, rk, du, kan, skr, om, hielp, aladdin, brand, sluk, ak are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words saa, det, jeg, en, og, at, l, da, nu, som, han, hav, ligb are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dig, morgiane, der are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases morgiane, jeg connect the lines.

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