Friend, Why Is My Love So Cross With Me by Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Friend, Why Is My Love So Cross With Me that begins with:

Friend, why is my love so cross with me
That he has chosen to live in fairylands?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX aab cdX ebf aga aaX XeX fac Xag eba Xcd X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110111101 11110010100 0111011100 1101011010 1110101010010001 111000101 110101111 010111001001 11100110101010 0111110110 010100101 101011001001 11100100101 11000101 11010010010 010110010001 11011101 110100110101 111110001010 0101010101 10110011001 01001111101 010111011 10011011110 0010001010110010 110101001 1111100101 11100101 11110101001 01010001001 1111111 11111011 1000101011 0101100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, her, like, in are repeated.

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