This is an analysis of the poem A Very Mournful Ballad On The Siege And Conquest Of Alhama that begins with:

Which, in the Arabic language, is to the following purport:
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bccddX XeeffX XggXcX XhhhhX biiccX biiffX XiiXXX XffhXX XXbhhX gjjbXX baXkkX XXlcXX XddddX XddhhX XXbhhX XccllX XmmffX XddaaX XddkkX XjjbXX XhhhhX XnnddX XddXiX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001001000010001 1 01011111 1010101 0100101 01000111 101100 1 1000111 1100101 00100111 1010011 101100 1 11011101 11010101 1010100 00010100 101100 1 10010111 1010101 1010111 00101001 101100 1 11010101 1010101 1010111 11000101 101100 1 1011001 11010101 1111111 0010101 101100 1 111111 0110101 10011111 1110100 101100 1 1110101 0010101 1010111 10101001 101100 1 1111100 0011101 1111101 0101101 101100 1 110101010 0100001010 11000111 01100100 101100 1 1101101 110101000 1111111 1111101 101100 1 1111101 1110101 1010101 11000100 101100 1 101010111 01110101 01110101 11010101 101100 1 10110111 11010101 11000101 01011111 101100 1 11001100 1111100 01110111 1100101 101100 1 1011101 1100101 11111001 11010111 101100 1 1001101 1110111 1010111 1011101 101100 1 11111001 11110101 10010111 11011101 101100 1 10111101 11110111 1110111 11010111 101100 1 110100110 0101010010 10010111 11010111 101100 1 11110111 11000101 100100101 11010101 101100 1 11110011 11110111 01010111 01011001 101100 1 100101001 01010101 011101010 01100111 101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 139
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, by, their, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, let, the are repeated.

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

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