How Soon After Enchanting Me You Left, O Wizard by Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem How Soon After Enchanting Me You Left, O Wizard that begins with:

How soon after enchanting me you left, O wizard !
Life's springtime, O my youth !...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab bXX cdd efg gdd dXX XXf fXe bfd acd eab X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110010111110 111111 11110111 10010101 10101001101 10100010010 01011001 10111110 101010010 10010101 100101001 0101100111 111111011 11111101 011010010 101101001 1111011010 01001001110 0010010000 101010101 10100100101 1111111 101101110 1101010101 1111011001 11101101 11001100101 111011010 11011101 1111111110 1001001001 1110111011 0101100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 715
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • 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; of is repeated.

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  • summary of How Soon After Enchanting Me You Left, O Wizard;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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