This is an analysis of the poem To Omar Khayyam that begins with:
Omar, within thy scented garden-close,
When passed with eventide...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdeedbffbbggXX hijihkaajceeclhhlccmemmXenmXboob bbabXbbXokkbocbnbneeggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,32,23,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001110101 110100 0100100101 110001 10011101001 101101 010101 0101001101 0111010000 1001010111 1001010111 1101010101 1011001 011101 010111 1011010101 1100010101 101101 1011110011 0111000100 110100001 0111011101 010111 100101 0101110111 0101110100 110101 010111 1101100101 01000001101 0101010 010111 111100 01110001010 1101010101 0101010111 1010001 0111011001 0100111001 11010100101 0111110100 111101 1001010001 0101100101 1111010101 0110010 110111 1101110101 11010101010 1001010000 010101 0101101111 0101010001 1111011100 111101 1001000111 1101110 010111 0101010111 000101 100111 110100 1101010001 1011110111 0111011101 1111 010001101 0101110111 010101 010101 011101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 827
- Average number of words per stanza: 147
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word omar at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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