My Beloved May Be With His Friends by Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem My Beloved May Be With His Friends that begins with:

My beloved may be with his friends
In shalamar, showering his radiance...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aba cab Xaaa adbe fgfg caXa cbed bXXa dhhg X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 101010001 01001000100 111101 11111111 11110111111 1101011111 011011110 100101 011110011 110011 1111001 01010111 01001111 0111001 101101 110101 10011101 01001101 1010111 0101001 1010101 100101 11010010 111010 0111011 1110011 10100101 01001101 1010010101 0100010 1010111 0010101 110001001 1110111 0101100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; of is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love is repeated).

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