This is an analysis of the poem Annals Of Assur-Nasir-Pal Column I that begins with:

To Ninip most powerful hero, great, chief of the gods, warrior, powerful Lord, whose onset in battle has not been opposed, eldest son,
crusher of...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b c d a e e e f X a e g a e f h e f e e i e j d e X e e e k d e b e e h e f i c j a d l X a i b e b m e X X X d n X X m j i e c X X h X e n j c X d X c j o X X g d e e a j j e k j m b i c d l j c e e d i l e X a X j d j X o c g X eXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011001011001100100111101011001101 100010111010001000101010100100101001110101 01011100001100011011000100100101101010 0010010011110010001101010001010010110010 100010110010110111001010110001011011101010 11101010101011101010010010010101011 111011111011100100100101001010011010100 0101011011010100100011101011001010001010011001001 111101010010001011110101000100100111111101010101 101010110001010110100101010010011100010110 1010010001100101111100110100011101 1110001011101001101001001001001101010101 00110111010011101011001010101110 1101010010010100111011101010110101 01001001011110100001010010001101 1100010101000110101001000110111010 010001001101111001101111101100 110100100101010011011010110011000011 010001010001000101101010100100101010010100 0101100100101011010101011 1010010101101000001010010010000110100100011010 011001001010110101110100101001111101011 111111110011010010001000100110011 10100110100011100010011100010111 010110011010111010101101011010010 11010101001100111010101000101001001001010 00110110100100010011100101010101110110 01010101000100010101100100101001110100 11010011101000100011011000100011 110101110010010100010100101110100 010101010011100100110100100100111 11011101111001111110110101111101110100 11111110010101001010010010000111000101000110001 11100100100100100110010010010110 1100101001101000011001010010010101011 1001010101101000110101010101110100010011 11111100110110101010011101100111001010 1101010101001001101111010101111010110011000011 01001110110011111011110111101100 0100101001011011000010110101100011 10000110010010011010001100010010001001100 10100100111010110101110110001110101011 011100101010000011110111011100010011 101101101110001110101010010101010101101011010 0101001111110011010101011001011010 01001101110111001010111110010010101100 100101010010100010100110010110111101 0101111111101111000101101000100100100100100100 1010110101001011101010101001010111100011 001100100101011100110011101101010011 0100111100101010100101011011111111 111101100010101110010101011101 1101101010111110010100010101110 110110100101100101000101001110100100 001010010010010010010100101 10110101011101011100011001001110010100 1011010101110101010011001010 11101010111011010010100101 0010101101100101001101001010010100 110101100101010000100111 11001001110111001011111101101 1100010010010100101001010100101010110 001110101011110101011011011010 101100101111111101101010011 0010010010101111000100101111010001 01101010110101101000101010011111111 101101010101110010101010011010 0010010011011100101011111100110110100010100 0101111010001010001001010110110100011100001001101110011 0100101100111111001001000101010011011010010 101010101001110100101011010011011 1111011010101101001010100111010 111111000100110010011011010101011 00101001010100100100100101011110110100 1110111010010101001101010010010111100 1000001010001101100111111101011 011101111001001110101001001001101011010 0010010101000100100010110010010101 11010100110010101010100110111 0100010101110100111010100101010011101101 010011111101111110000101000 1011001111100010011101100110101010010101 010100010001001000111010100101001010 11100100010110001010101101011 0100010010101001001101010110 101001001100010010010011011010011 10011001010100101010101 100110010010100100100100101110101011010 1101101101010011010010100111010001010 110100111111111110001010010001110011101 001111011101001110101110011011 1111101101001000011001001111 11100000100111110010011110 101101011110010010001001010100 10111010101011001110110 1110110101001101001000010010010 11101011010110011101001011100101110110 01100111010101011001001011010111011 0010110101100111100010011101010100101111011011 010010011101101000100110111010100100010 101101101001000010101110010100100111 1111100100100110010001101100010010011010 00100100010101010100001001010110010 0100100111101011111001101010101001010010110 110100110011001001101111001100101011101 011101010001010010110010100101010100 01011000100101110010000011000011011101101101 0111011011010100111001111000110 01000111101110111000111111101010 10010001101101101010001100101011010101010 0100100011101011110010111101011011000111 0100010101101001011110111101101010101100 1101111100101101100100101010111 01100111011001001111100101011101 1111101101110110101011010110101011 1101011111011011010101011001 011110111010010111110101010101 110101101110111110101111100111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 118
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 118
  • Average number of symbols per line: 136 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 25
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, who, powerful, earth, and, whose, not, lord, great, in, his, all, has, my, gods, he, have, they, enemies, i, king, heart, me, their, difficult, took, mountain, up, like, land, kirruri, soldiers, cities, commagene, city, some, copper, to, treasures, coverings, on, off, pile, tribute, it, with are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words the, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase king connects the lines.

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  • summary of Annals Of Assur-Nasir-Pal Column I;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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