This is an analysis of the poem Nahj Al Burda (The Way Of The Mantle) that begins with:

On the plain, between the ban-tree and the mountain,
a white gazelle-fawn...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcdaaefghiiXjabjkjleefkkkdmahnopfbeejgfjqcjgrjjXasbggebqjfrcaqrfqebtjajjejacebpceepcqafjqrempXcgpqXXjocXabfamnbjhjmhjnpscrfcbXqmaXXabajoaearjsqjqbfajbXacajejXhaogdjojkbcmmrXoofnqeXklmcacfXhrhgecjeaaocruojbooojXXpcpvcggccrbaojbemsjoaejchrbqfcsXjXbeqcbXah
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 604,156,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010111010 01011 1101001001 0111 00110011 11010 10111101 1010110010 100111011 11110 1011101 101110 1011111010 01100 1101010 111 11010000001100 01010 0111110101 01010 11111101 1101 01011010101111 111101 111111 100101 11010111 0101 110101110 1010 111101001 0101011 0101110110 111101 110111001101 1110100 11010111 10101110 11010111 0101 00101011 1111011011 1111011 1111 110110111 00110 1101110100 01101100 111011 1010 110101 0101 11101011 11010 11100100100 011 110111 111101 001010101 11001 111010010 11010 0111001 110100 100101110 0101 11001010101 110101 11101011 101 111010110110 1110010 1100110001 101011010001 0110101010 11010 110001110 110010 11110010 10010 1101 100101 1110101 0011 1101011 001001 1110101 0010010 011101011 0101111 1111111 0100 11010010101 001010 1011110101 0110110 11111001 01100101 100101 010001 1011101100 111100 1111010101 01010 100111111010 100 000100111100 1010101 1101 1010101 010101010 111 100100111 1001 11010011 101 11001111110 1101 0011111 1111 0110111 010011 010111110001 0011100 110111101 1101101 01101010111 01110110 1101111 101010 1011001011 01100 11010110001100 01010011 11011001000100 011010 111010010 001100 101100101010 1010 11101101 00100 10111010 10010011 001101 01110101 011101 0011101 011000101 01110 0101011001 111111 0110110 00010 111111 0111001011100010 101111001001 0101 010010001011 01100 11101101101 10110101010 1111001001 10101 1101011001 0001 1001011 1001010101 101001 001010 1111100100101 010 110010100110 1001101010 1100000 101 10110010111 10011101 110100111 11101 1100111010 0110 10101011001 0010010101 10100100010 010011 1010001010 111 01000101101 11011001100 1011111 110101010 0100101011 0110 10010100001101 010101 010010 11 0011010010 1101 01001000101 1101001000111 1100011010 001 0010101001011 01010011 111101 0111 1011101 11110001 00111 11100 11111010101 1011 010101101 01 1101011010 10 1010110 1101110 11001011101 010100010 10100 01110 11011111010 0101101 111010110 01001010 10010101 11110 01010111 0111 110111 0101010 0111101101 001001 11010001 11001 00101001010 101010101 101100010 011 110011 11111 0111010101 1011111 101101010 11101101 101111 00100 10101001 00100000001 1110110 1111010 1111010 01110 11110010101 110100 111111 00010110 1111100001 1001 111101 0011101 111101001 001001 101001101 11001 01010101 1010010 111101 1100 010101100 11 11111101 01011 01001101110 011 10100010011 010 010100000101 1001 01101 11100110 111000101 1101 11011001 111101 001001111 010110100 0100110011 0100100 0100101 1110 1010101 10111010 0110001101 1111 01110 0010 011011 001010 1110101 00100010 01000110101 101 101001001 10101100010 111 1110110 1011001010 010 1011 10010 101010010 1111011 01010 01001 11010110111 00101 010010001 110010 1100 110101 011101 101001 110101 111010 101111 00101 101011001 100011 1110 111110 1101011 110111 1101010 101110101 1010101010 010 110010 111010 101001 001001 110111 0110100 1000101 10110110 000000010010 1001 101001001 101011 1110111 01001 1111 1111 0111100101 01001 11100011 1101 111010100 01010101 1100010 110001 1010101 0100 101010110 00101 11001101 01100 010001001011 1101 11010100 101100101 00110101101 1111010 00101001 01010 01010101 101001 0010101 101000 0101001 110010 1111 101000110 111100 010001 1111 010101101 110110110100010 01111 1001110 10101 10101110 0101 110010110100 010111 1111110100 110101 0100010101010 11100 0010001001011 11100 0111010 011110 11101 11 101101111 0101 11110011 0010111 1110101 11011 110111010111 01000111 1001000100010 010001100 0100100111001001 11 0111101 01010100 011010101 01011000 010100110001 11 01101000101 11110 0101010 011111 101011101100 10001 111011011 101 101001110 111 1101 101 0110110 0100101 1011010101 00111011 100011111 01 011110111 101001 110110100101 0101 101110001 0100101 10101011001 0111011 11010010 0111 111001 0101010 1011101010 111 110011 1011 110101011 1011101 110111010 01010001 1000110110 010100 11110100 10010101 11110101 011100 011011 1011011 00100001001 1100 1110101 1010110101 1010010101101 00101 01110100 010010 101110010 101010 10110010 00011 110101010100 110011 010100 010101 110100111110000 1101010 1101011001 01010 001101011101 0010 101001111010 0010110 00111011 01111 10101010001010 0001001 01010101001101 0011001 1011011110 0111 01000010011010 11101101010001 101100000110 11111 100101011001 11101 010101 0101 1101010101 0110100 10101010 101010001 1100010100 111010010 11001000110 1010 001110111011 010100001 101110 11010 01001001 01001 11000100 1110 011111001 1101001 0011011110 1010110 0100010101 10010010 11101110 10010 0101100101 111 1010011011 110001 011101010 100101011 010011 010 10101 10001011 1010101 11010 0101010001 010001 11001010101 10011100 010100110111 11010110 110101 11001 11001011 11100101 1110010 110001 001111 011011 101110110 0111 01100010111 0101 1100101 0101 01000010101 010101100 11001011 0100010 01000100011101 10010 11110110010 0100 0001101 1101110 00110000101 1011 11001001 010001001101 10101101 01010 10010001 111 010110101010 011 01010111 0010 10110101 110 11000101001 0111 000101010100 1 10101010 110010 1010110 11011 11011001 11010 11010011 001110 10101110 11001 10001111 00100 101001 00101010 10101000110 010 1010100 01100 1101 1010010 11100010 01110 1101001010 10101 1110101 01110 1101000100 1011 110101011 0010 0010010 1010100 010010110 010 101011101 0010 1111010 0100110 110101010 001 1010110 1001 010011 1010 0111110 1101 011001010 10100001 1110010010 110 1101000101 11010 0101111010 111 01010101 01010 110110011 01 11011001 1111000 0100111010 0010110 110100 1101 110111101 011101011 01010010110 1010111 11011111101 01 011000010 0011 101010110 010110 001001110 0111 11101 01001 10111101 0101001011 1100010010 10100 0101010 001 110010001 101 0100101 10101101 010011 11010 100100010 011100 001101010 101010000 0101101010 0001110 101101 1001101011 01011010 110100 10100010 1001001 010010010 11111010 1110 110010 00101011 11101001011 1111011 11111010 01111111 0101100 11101 1101 10010011101010 101 10101 010101 010100101 0101 1001 01010100 101101 010110 11110100001 011 11010001010 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  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 11897
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2042
  • Amount of lines: 760
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, your, with, not, he, of, for, and, al, n are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, in, when, you, no, o, of, the, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines arrow, him, god are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.

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  • summary of Nahj Al Burda (The Way Of The Mantle);
  • central theme;
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