This is an analysis of the poem At Bordj-An-Nus that begins with:
El Arabi! El Arabi! Burn in thy brilliance, mine own!
O Beautiful! O Barbarous! Seductive as a serpent is...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXabX cdcdXcdX aeaeXaXX ababXabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011001011011 1100110001010100 1101111101010001 0111010111010100 11001100 01011101 1111110110011001 1100 1101010111101111 1111010101011101 10111101100010111 1011111111110101 11001100 00111101 111101011010100101 1100 1001010101010101 110001011111011 1010010111110111 1100110111010101 11001100 11010101 1111110100100001 1100 1100110011010100 111010011101101 0111110101010101 1101011101111101 11001100 10010111 111100011110000100 1100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 388
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, el, arabi, i, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word el is repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word arabi at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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