This is an analysis of the poem Bones In The Desert that begins with:
Where pilgrims seek the Prophet's tomb
Across the Arabian waste,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dcXc XXbe fghg gcXc XgXg hdid aXce XgcX ijfj bkbk ccjcXbgeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 01001001 01010101 010101 11000101 0100101 01010111 011101 01010110 0101110 11110101 010001 11011101 010111 11011101 110101 101010111 110101 110100101 0110111 11010001 110101 11010101 1100101 11110101 0101001 11110101 001100 110011111 1101000 11100101 110001 110111110 101101 11011011 100110 01010101 011111 11110111 010111 11011111 1111101 11111101 111101 11001111 110011 01110111 101111 011100101 000101 101011101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, some are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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