This is an analysis of the poem Antarah Pours Out His Heart that begins with:

My sin against Ablah is beyond remission;
Became obvious when the morning of life ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeeXefagaeecf hihjXXaXbcXja kekXXjbgd hdjglgfclhheX cgXcjXeghghjXjdeidahh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,13,9,13,21,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110001010 01100101001 110011 0111001 1110111010 10010101101 10001001 101010010011 0111110101010 1111011010 010110 1010110 11101101 1111010 11010100 01101010010 110100010 101011101 1111111101 11100111 0010100 01011001000 11110010 101011111100 110111 01001011 101010100 101100011 0101001011 110101101 010110101 1110111 1110100110 10111101101 10110101 101010011101011 01001010 110101 101101110010 100110111011 1110001011010 1011011000 1001100 1011101000 010100010 11001 11011101000110 0101001110010 111100010 1100101 1110101110 11111101 1110100010 0101001 11111 1101011101 1101101101 11101111 101101101001001010 1111000110101 0111110 01010101110 0100100101 101000101010 110111 010011001 1001111011 11011 1010010011 10101 110110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 435
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 71
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, she, her, to are repeated.

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