This is an analysis of the poem Mirza Ghalib that begins with:
Through you the secret was revealed to the human intellect
That innumerable enigmas are solved by human intellect...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb bX cc de dX dd fX eX fX XX Xd aa aa gg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010010101 10100010011110101 10001110100101110 10111101100010 110100101110 1010101101001 0010001001011 1101010101001 0100101010011010101 00101111111 10010010011 10110101010 10101001000101001 10000101110100 0100100001111 101010101010 1111000101010 1101010001010 1010101010001100 1010001101010101 111010010100 1010000101001 01010111110 01011111110 1100011001011 10101010001001 0110110101001011 10100010111010011 101011010111011001 10101111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, of, your, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, ah, does are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines intellect, harp, dust, you are repeated).
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- summary of Mirza Ghalib;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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