This is an analysis of the poem Taraana-E-Milli that begins with:

Cheen-o-Arab hamara, Hindustan hamara
Muslim main hum, watan hai sara jahan hamara...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X X X X X X X X X a Xb X b X a X X X X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110100101100 10111011010100 1011001011100 10101001110100 100111011101101 11111101110100 1011111110101 1010111010100 10110011010100 10111011110100 1011010110101 1111011100100 1100110111111 110101110100 1111011100111 11110101001100 1111101011101 11101011110100 10110110110110 11111010110100 1011001110110 1011010110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 45
  • Average number of words per stanza: 9
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hamara, e are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hamara is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word hamara at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Taraana-E-Milli;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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