This is an analysis of the poem Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám that begins with:

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AWAKE! for Morning in the Bowl of Night... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbb XaacX XddaX X eefX a eeee a ggeX X hhah X aaea X bbib j Xggg a ffjX X kXbk X XfjX X gXjg X gglg X Xaca X ccjcX llel X ggeg X eeae X bbdb X kkXk X llal X ddeX X bbgb X eeee X bbdb X ffbX X hhbh X jjgX X bblb X aaaa X llXl X ggmX X mmbm X a
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,5,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,5,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 0111000101 1101110101 1101000111 0101000101 1 1011111001 1101010101 10011011101 01110001010 1 1101111101 01010100101 1111011101 110101011100 1 10110101010 0101010101 1011010101 11110001100 1 101010101 1101111111 1101010101 1101010101 1 1101111001 1101001011 110001001001 11010011000 1 110110010001 0101000101 0101110101 0111010101 1 1101010001 1101010001 1011011101 111011001 1 1101101101 01011001 1101011110 111110101 1 0101110101 1101010001 110111101 11011101 1 1001010101 0101010111 0111000100 1100010110 1 101010100011 1010101010100 1101011101 1011000101 1 10011101110 100111000111 1101010011 11010101010 1 0101111101 1101010110 1101010101 10010101101 1 1111000101 1111000111 0101110111 1101111101 1 1001010000 1111100111 11101001 01010111101 1 1101010101 0111010111 111110011 11001111101 1 1011110111 011111011 11001010101 1001011101 1 1001011101 1001011111 1101010111 01110100101 1 1101010111 0101011101 0101010110 1101011100 1 1111010011 1111011101 1111011101 1111110001 1 1111110001 1111010011 0111010101 0101010111 1 1101011111 0111000101 1001110101 1111110111 1 0111110101 1111000101 01000100101 1010101011100 1 1101110101 0011110011 1101011101 1101111101 1 1101101101 0111010111 1101010101 01011111101 1 1111010010 1011111100 0101011101 1110111011 1 0001010011 10111100001 1011010111 101110111110 1 00010111110 11110101010 1100110101 11110101010 1 1011010101 1011010101 0101010101 0100001000 1 1011010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010111 1 1101011111 1101111111 1101010111 1111110111 1 1001010111 10101110001 010101000010 110110000101 1 1001010101 1101010101 11010101011 11111101100 1 1101010100 1001010101 1101101111 1101010111 1 1001011101 1101010011 1001010101 010100101010 1 1101110001 1101010111 1101011101 1101000101 1 1100100001 1100010101 0111010101 1101010111 1 1111010001 0011010101 1001000101 1101011101 1 1111111011 1011010101 0111010011 1101000101 1 11001101010111 110110011101 1101110101 1101010111 1 1101010101 1101011101 1001010101 1111001101 1 0111010101 01110010110 0101001001 1101000110 1 0101001001 1101000111 0111010101 1011000101 1 1101010101 0100010110 1011000101 1101111101 1 1011010101 1101010111 1001110001 1111010111 1 1001110111 1001011101 1101111111 1101011101 1 1011010101 0110010101 1101000101 1101111111 1 1101010111 1100011101 1011011111 1111100101 1 0111010111 1111110101 1111110001 1101011111 1 0101011101 1111110011 1101010101 1111110100 1 1101011101 1001011111 1111001110 1100011111 1 0111100111 1100110101 1011000101 1011010011 1 1110110001 1001000101 011110011 0111010111 1 0111010101 011101011 0111010101 1101011101 1 1011100111 1001110111 1100010101 1010010111 1 1111011101 0101110100 1110110101 0111011101 1 1111010111 1101010101 11011000101 0101010111 110 1001110101 0101010101 0111011101 0011010101 1 1101011101 1101001101 1100110101 100010111010 111 110101000101 11000101110 11110011001 11110101100 1 01011010101 1101011101 1111010011 11001101100 1 1100110101 0100010101 10111110101 100110010100 1 11100010101 1101000101 1101110011 10010111010 1 1101000111 101010100011 1110010101 10110101110 1 11010111010 11010101010 111111010010 100101010100 1 1001110101 1111010111 1001000111 1101111101 1 1111010101 0011110001 1101010101 1101010101 1 0101011111 1111001111 1111000101 1111010101 1 0101010101 1111110111 11111011101 1111001001 1 1111110101 1110110101 1101010101 1111010111 1 01101110001 1111010111 0100100101 1111010111 1 11111101010 01010101010 1111000111 11010001010 1 1101011111 0101010101 1101010111 1011010101 1 1110010111 0101110101 1011010101 111111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 145
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 425
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; wine, and, his, to, sans, dust, i, lip, of, he, knows, with, in, have are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, to, there, one, have are repeated.

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