This is an analysis of the poem How Bárbad Lamented Khusrau Parwiz that begins with:
Now list the lamentation of Bárbod,
And grow forgetful of the world at large....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcXXcXXXddXefXXgh XbXb ibib bfXf dedX XcXc jgXg adad klfl iXij dmdm eiXi fnkn Xiki mhmh bfbXXacaii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110100001 1101000111 110101101 1100110101 1111010101 010101010 11010010 010111100011 010111010 0101011101 110101000 11010001001 0110010111 1001011010 01110100111 0101010001 1101010101 1011110101 0101110101 1101000101 111010110 1111110111 1111001101 1111110111 110100101001 11110111001 1111001111 1111101111 1101111101 11001110011 010111100 1101110111 1101011101 1001010101 1110010101 01111101000 1111011100 1101010101 1101011000 1111000110 1101011110 0101010101 11110011000 111111001 1111011100 1111011101 1101110101 1101010101 1110011100 01010111010 0101011101 110101011010 1011110111 1101011100 1101010101 1111010101 1111111101 0100101011 0101011101 111011101 1011011 1100010111 010101100 111010100 1101010111 1111110001 0101010100 1101110101 1010101110 1100110001 1101110100 1101111101 1111010011 1111011111 1111111111 11111111001 11001010111 0101110111 1100010011 1111011100 1111011101 0101010101 11010110100 110111111 11110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 85
- 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; his, in, he, o, thy, thine, and, to, by, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, where, by are repeated.
The author used the same word 'where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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