This is an analysis of the poem Couplet that begins with:
Oh Khusrau, the river of love runs in strange directions.
One who jumps into it drowns, and one who drowns, gets across....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab Xaa XXc Xde XXXffX Xdg XXh Xgb XcX Xii XXh Xeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,3,6,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001001101010 11100011111101 1 010001010001000010 00101010010101001 1 011010111110011010 010101110010111 1 1100100011010011 110101000011011111000 1 10111010111100 1110101111011 10010100100010 10010100101 00101110010 1 10101101101111 111001110011 1 111100111010 1110110101010100 1 010010111 000000000 1 1110010101101 101010111010100 1 01011101011001 010110111010001 1 1101011010001111000 110110100010110 1 110111111101011 1111110101111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of, it, this are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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- summary of Couplet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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