Stay Your Feet, My Love, To Let Me Kiss Them by Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Stay Your Feet, My Love, To Let Me Kiss Them that begins with:

Stay your feet, my love, to let me kiss them
With my life. O, listen to my tale of woe !...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa XXb ac ad Xbb Xde afe cX cf X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,2,2,3,3,3,2,2,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111101110 01111001101 1111010101 11111111 0110100101 1011010110101 11111110101 10111111101 111111101001 110001101010 01101100110 1011111 011101110 010111101 11010101 10101001101 111101010111 1111010 11101001011011 11010011101001 110111101 11011110111 0101100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 564
  • Average number of words per stanza: 94
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; my is repeated.

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  • summary of Stay Your Feet, My Love, To Let Me Kiss Them;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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