This is an analysis of the poem Ghazal 2 (With English Translation) that begins with:

How can these envious people know about kind attitude?
Their pride of beauty does not allow them to be humble....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX X a a X X a X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100101011101 11010110100010 11111101111110011111101100111 1111010110101101110101001010101 11110111011101011101000101 10010011010101101001011100100100100101 1101010001010111111011010100 011010100111001110111101 11100111000110100101111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 103 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 19
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, you, of, about, have, love, who are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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