This is an analysis of the poem Maktoob that begins with:
A shell surprised our post one day
And killed a comrade at my side. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bebe fgfg ghgh Xiai ffff fjfj kfkf kfkf cbcX jbjb Xlgl kmkm gege ibibXdfdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01011111 11011111 11110101 110111 11010111 11110111 01000101 010100 11001101 11000100 11010111 000101 11111111 10010101 11110101 100100 1010100111 11000101 00010101 100011 01010100 11111101 01111100 0100101 11111111 11011101 10110111 011100 10111011 01110111 11010001 001101 110110101 11011111 01111101 010001 111111001 11010101 11111001 011101 11111100 10110111 00010101 110100 10110101 10111111 01011111 111011 1101011000 10010101 10110011 111101 10011111 01111101 10111111 100111 11011101 11011111 11110001 110111 11011011 11110101 11010101 101101 10110011 11110011 01010101 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and, you, to, some are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, maktoob, the are repeated.
The author used the same words i, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Maktoob;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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