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

Peace from the northern wind that swept across Barada River.
As long as that wind sweeps, tears would be everlasting upon Damascus....

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXXcadbefghgbXihjjdbiikbflcdjgmmngdcjloolgdXmppmqaemXXbbecjbcqegiinreiagiiraebegigikmqgdigaifabbiamgmfqiadag
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 110,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101110110010 111111110101001010 1010111101001010 010010101001011001 010101111010 111001101010 0101001101110 01000010111011 101010101101 00100111000 01010101101 011100101001000 1011100011100110 11010011010100 01010011101010 0110001011101001 11001110 1011110110011001 0101101010100 10100001111010 101011101001 11001011010001 1010101100 010010101001010001 00101001100011 10101100110111010 0100000110100101 10110001100101 00110101000101 0100011010000100101 101010011001 111101011100 1000010110001010 1010100101001010001100 1001101010100101001 010100101101100 1100001000101110 11100001001001010 101011110111101001 11010001001011010101001 1101000010011100 0100101010011010 11010010101011 0010110010 101010101 11101100101 1101010001100110 010110100110100111 10111010101010111 101010110011 01010011010011 0101101010 01001011111010 0101101110 00110100100010 111110100100010 1110011001010110 0010100010111 0100100101100 1101110011011 1111011011001001010 10010011010010100110 0100011100101 111111110111111 0100101001101 1011010010100 01111101000010010011 1010101111110111 0101010110111 0101010100100001 10100110010101010110 111110001111011100 11001101111110 10100100100 00010001010011010101 1000100111010 101111010 100101110110 01101001100101111001 10010110101001 10101111110100001010 1001110001011101101100 11001001011001 111001000100100100 10100011111100 01101011101010101 1111101001001010 1001010110010011 1101111101010100 1110100100001 101101111110101 110101010010111010 0101110010101000110 101110110101010010 0110110110100101 00010110100001110 11010011100010 0101001001100010 1100100110110101 100101101001101010 01110111010 10101001110100 101100001010 101001011010100111 11101010110101 001101010101 10010110110101010 011010101110110 10110100001000010001100 111001001010101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6391
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1092
  • Amount of lines: 110
  • Average number of symbols per line: 57 (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; my, heart, its, of, it, blood, their, to, we, not, who, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words do, the, he, and, they are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them, up, damascus are repeated).

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