Dost Ban Kar Bhii Nahii.N Saath Nibhaanevaalaa by Ahmad Faraz: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Dost Ban Kar Bhii Nahii.N Saath Nibhaanevaalaa that begins with:

dost ban kar bhii nahii.n saath nibhaanevaalaa
vahii andaaz hai zaalim kaa zamaanevaalaa ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110110000 1010110110000 111100110010 11011111000 11010100010011 1111111111000 111110110100 110101101000 10011110110011 110010111000 111101100110110 11111010000 110111011101100 110111111110 110011100100110 110101110000
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet repeated the same word aanevaalaa at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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