This is an analysis of the poem A Sail On Tigris River that begins with:

.A sail on Tigris River expands going forth in front of me
.My tears pray imploring not to viscous event attacks thee...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbbbccddeeff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111010011010101 111010101001011 1101010110110 10101011011010 10010110010010100 100110110111010 10110101110010 11110010011100 0001110010111 1000101100101001 1100100101101 01100100111 10010110100010010 111100110010010 11011011001000100 101001111110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 915
  • Average number of words per stanza: 162
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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