This is an analysis of the poem Al Aaraaf that begins with:
PART I
O! nothing earthly save the ray... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a aaaXbbccbbdddee eeffbbggcchhdd iieeffccffcc ccjjccddXckkllmmanoocceefflliijjXlXXmmll eaeakekeXflfmfmfkbkbXlnlcacaalalnlaX ppaneeeXbbddaaa llcciillllaaffnalX ffeeddll X ccddXlaaffbebeebbaalleelljjllqqXfrrggqq ffXkhhcc ddllffffXiee nabbddjj mamamdmdcklkjd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,15,14,12,40,36,15,18,8,1,39,8,12,8,32,12,44,42,16,13,4,14,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11 11010101 110100101 10110101 010010100 11010101 01000111 110001010 111100010 11010001 01010101 11000101 110101010 111111110 01110101 01001 101111011 0111010101 1111010101 1010010001 0101110111 100101011001 0111010111 1100010100 0101010111 1101010101 1101001101 1101010101 101011110001 10001010101 110010001101 11010010001 10011100101 1101110101 011110111 1100010011 1111000101 1100010001 1101010101 01010100101 0111110101 11010010101 1100110101 01001011101 1011010011 1100010101 0101011011 0011010111 0100010011 10001010101 110100100100 1101011101 11010000101 0101010101 1000111010 11110001010 01001101010 11010110010 0110010001 0101100100 01011001001 1100010101 10001011101 0101011111 1001100101 1101010111 1001110101 1100101001 110100011001 1101100101 11010101111 1111010001 100100101001 01010010001 1100010101 01000010001 1111010011 010101110 10100111110 010010101010 110110011010 0101010101010 101101 0011 010011 0101 010101 0100001 110101 01100111 00100100 1010101 0111011 0010101 00100010 0110011 0111110 1011111 110111 0010011 1011011 110101 10101110 110011 11110100 010011 100111 011101 110010111 011101 110101 011101 011100110 010011 11100 1100010 11001100 00010010 1111010101 0101010101 0100010001 1011010100 1111110111 1100010011 0101010101 1101011100010 1001011011 10010010101 110111011 11001010101 1111110111 00101010101 10111100001 1111110101 1001010111 1111010101 1111010101 0101110101 10111011001 1101110101 0101110111 11011000110 01110101010 1100110111 0111010101 011101001001 1101010101 0101001100 0011110110 01010100101 1011000101 1101000101 0101011111 1101111101 0110110111 11110101010 11010001010 11101010111 01111101001 11 11010010001 1101010101 01010010101 1001011111 010010100100 11010100010 01011100101 0001110101 0101111101 1011001101 10001110101 010101110001 1001010111 1101011101 1100110001 0101110111 10101100001 0111010111 0101010001 0111101011 1101110101 01001100101 1101000101 11011111001 1101010101 11011100111 1101010101 1101010111 0100011101 110101101 1011011101 11001010100 100101011 1100011001 101100111 1001010100 0101010101 0100010101 0101111101 1101000101 1001000111 1101010100 01001110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 010101110011 1100010101 0100010101 0111010101 110000101 0011000101 0101010101 1111010101 1101010001 0101001101 111101101 0101110101 1101111101 11001000100 01010111101 1001010111 01001111111 11010101001 11011011101 1101100101 1100010101 1011110 11011 110010 01101 110110 01101 1011110 11001 1111011 11011 110010 11111 010110 010010 010100 111010 110110 01001 010110 11001 110111 11001 110011 11101 11011 11001 01001 011111 111010 11001 1111010 11101 1010 11001 110010 001001 10010 101001 101001 101100 01011 11101 011001 101001 10010 11010 110110 11001 111101 00101 101101 111001 01001 1110010 11001 00100010 010101 001001 101001 1110001 011110 11101 00011110 01011 01111 001011 101011 110001 111010 11011 1010010 11001 1110111 11001 010110 11111 111110 11001 110010 110001 111010 11011 111010 01011 1011110 010011 010010 11101 1001110001 01010111001 11110011101 10011100011 1110011101 1101010111 1111010111 11110100101 0101010011 0010101101 1100100001 1101111101 1111000111 0011000101 0111110100 11110010111 1111110101 010100100111101 11010011001 1101010011 11111101101 0111111101 01010101010 11111101110 1101110101 1001110110011 1101010111 0100111101 0101011101 0100011101 1101110111 1111011101 111101001010 00110111010 0111010101 0101011101 1001010101 111101110101 1110010111 0101010100 1100101101 0100010101 11011111 1101011101 1111011101 1101011101 1111110101 0111010001 111001000101 01111101001 1111110101 1100010001 11001111111 0101000100 11111100101 11011001101 1101110101 0111111111 1110111101 1011010101 1101010101 1111010110 1111110100 11110100010 10110110110 1101010111 1101000111 1001011011 1001000101 0101010111 1111000101 1101110000 0101010111 1101101101 1101000110010 1101010111 11110010101 0111110101 1111100101 1001010101 110101001001 1011111101 1111011101 10010100101 1101010110 11010011010 1100111101 1111010101 0110010101 1110111101 01011010001 1111010101 11010011111 1101010101 1101110101 1101111101 10010110101 1101011101 0111010001 1111010100 11100100101 1101010101 1101010111 1101010001 1111011101 10100101001 0111111111 11110001101 1111010011
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 813
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 425
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, and, their, that, her, it, on, eve are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of, to, a, sweet are repeated.
The author used the same word ligeia at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase all connects the lines.
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- summary of Al Aaraaf;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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