This is an analysis of the poem O, Jihad The Glory Has Been Clapping To You that begins with:

Ask the sublimity and time, however, they can discuss.
Do we guard not our promise one day since they know us? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcdeaffXXffadfgffdedhegfdiifXffXaaaddffddhhffjjcaffkhkk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 58,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101000111101101 1111110111111 01001110100110 11111111110 10110111 1011110101 11010101 101110111101 111110101000 0111110010100 010101010100 1101000101100100 11110100111000 01111110110100 010110010101 11011001101 10001000101100 101110101 110111010101010 1111010000100 0010111 101101010110101 1110100101011 10101101001101010 01011011110110100 101100011101110101 110010101001100 00101110101010011 0101101100100 100011011001100 011101001000 111100101000 1010100100110 001100100111100100 11011111101100 11010011101110 1101111110110 110101111 01001010111101 110110110100010 000101111110110 10110100101111010 101111101 001010100011 111010000110 10110101110 0100001111010100 111010001111110 01001111101 11001110111 101101110101 1011111101 1101110111001000 111001101010100 010011101111 0010001010010101 01010101011101 000111111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2966
  • Average number of words per stanza: 528
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, we, it, our, their, your, to are repeated.

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

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