Sack The Gongman by Bulleh Shah: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Sack The Gongman that begins with:

Sack the gon-gman
My love has come home today...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XA bcac B XdXd B efcf B eXgX B Xggg BXBA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011 1111101 11011101 110110111 01001001 1110101 1011 10010100 001010101001 10101111 010100101 1011 101010101 1011101 101111 101101 1011 110101001 0100011001 1111111 110100100 1011 1111010010 10101011 10111111 11011111 1011 1011 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 68
  • Average number of words per stanza: 14
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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 is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sack is repeated.

    The author used the same word sack at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines man is repeated).

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