This is an analysis of the poem The Tale Of Agony that begins with:

Translated from the Lebanese
In memory of Patriarch Elias Hoayek...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXb acde fga caX hhiaX aaXcXbXaaac eeaaaa jeakha laae jeaaaa men kannnhmkc hihfjfX oaeiaX p ackaa ajema naaaeo gbjmgcb aeb eX aXeb aa ee alaX XX aaap ea eaaa Xca aee dXcmXj michXmal mmbb lj j jaeeabeelclj mmmleaXb iapaj emmacha mea aaa em m aeoqaqe aaaaj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,3,3,5,11,6,6,4,6,3,9,7,6,1,5,5,6,7,3,2,4,2,2,4,2,4,2,4,3,3,6,8,4,2,1,12,8,5,7,3,3,2,1,7,5,4,3,1,4,4,2,9,4,5,13,7,3,5,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01000101 0100010101010 110110110100 1010110 10110001 0101 001001 1110010011 111010 1100110 11010101 01011010 010010 010101011 0101111 11010010 11010110 1111 1111010010 1111010010 111110 111111 0101100 1100010 1110101010 10011 111001 110101 0110 110101101011 01010100100 0100100 01010 001001 011010 0010010001101 01001110 01001011 10111 101010100 100101 01000101010 110010 010100100 010100101 0101 0010101010 010001010 001010100 010010010 11010 010001100 010100111 01001 111111001 111 011 011 1 1101 01001100 10101 00101 10100101 00101000100 1110 1110011 1110011 111010011 111 101111 011 0110 01010011 01110 0111000 11 110101 111 10111 0101 001 11010000101 1010101101010 1111100011 1111 0010 1001 101 0111 010100 101001 10010001 101010 0010 010 10100 10 10010101 110010 111010000101 1101000110 101000100010 10001100001 11100110 111001000110 1110100110010 11101001001010 01010 1110110100 00010 11010010100 0011 1100100 10100 10 10 1101011000 001000 110010 010100001001 110010 1001010011 0111 111 111001 100100101 1010 1110 11111000 1001 10010 111010 100100 110010001 111011 001011011 1110 11100 100 1101 110110 1101101 11101 00101 10011001 010110 111000 0100100 111010 0010100 101011 001010 00100 11001100011001 110100010101 0011100101 0111 110 1010 10111 010010010110 011111110 110101 0111011010 10110 10111011010 11011 100101110 010010 010100 1001000100 001010 001011 0010011000 1110010 110010110 0101 1101101 101001 101 0101 011110 111110 111 11101 10010110001 001010 111010 0101 11010 11111 11 11001 101 110 11110 0111 1111 111001011 110 11 1001010 00011 1010 1100 11010 1101010 110010 101 0011 10 1011 11110010 0101001 000110 0110011101 111010 101110 101001 11001 111101 101010 10101010 1101010001011010 00101 10100 111001 01101 110101 111110 1111010 111010 10100 1111 1 111 11110 10100101 101010 1101 11 110011 1111110 001011 101010 1110 110010 101000 111 10 1001 1011 11 1100 01001110 11 11010 11111 1010101 101100 1001110001 00110010 101010 11010 1111 00101 101111 1100101 101001 11101010 11001101 1010 1010 00100 11101101 0100
  • Amount of stanzas: 60
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 277
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, who, and, themselves, this, of, from, which, i, hear, his, like are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, the, who, and, this, of, from, or, i, in, which, like are repeated.

    The author used the same words when, this, and, i, like 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 me, themselves, time are repeated).

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