This is an analysis of the poem Lilatu Laili that begins with:

At night on the radiant Rialto,
By the stars in their houses of glass, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbcbXdedXfgfaegegXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010010 101011001 110110110 11111111 1111011010 11111111 111110011 111011001 1110110011 001001101 1010110010 11001101 0011010110 111011111 11110010110 01001001 1111110011 101001001 1011010011 101111011 1010010010 101001001 10111011111 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 937
  • Average number of words per stanza: 189
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; my, and, of, i, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, that are repeated.

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