This is an analysis of the poem How Shirwi Ascended The Throne that begins with:

From the Shahnameh
Now when Shirwi sat on the goodly throne,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcdeXfX ghijkXlhbimkjibklX mX ikXXXXaaXnejbX gXbdhXokXXXbkpbdbkaXbakiXmqkkkfmdkdndjcbjhhaiXbkX acbkcXbbdXiaXXrrXbiXXdiX XnrXXmacX XXibX XqXimXnX kgbXX kdnkXeX bgapfX XbboX aXXgadrbfXrkdXXckbmaihoXaXX XkddfiambhdfdikkbX pbromibdaqprdkqomhdibbdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,18,2,14,49,24,9,5,8,5,7,6,5,27,18,24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 00100 1110110101 11010111010 010000100111 0101010101 0101001100 11110111110 0101010100 111111101 101110100 1101001101 1001000100 0101110111 01010011001 0101001100 0100111001 01001101111 1001010001 1011110101 0111010101 0111110101 1101010111 01011101010 1100110010 1001111111 1111010101 11001101010 11001011101 1011110010 0100010111 1101011101 1011010 010110011 010111010 01110100110 101011111 1101001100 11010001110 01011011010 001110010 0111110101 0101110111 1101 01010 110101011 101011111 10110110111 1101110100 110101010 0100110010010 1101010101 11110110010 1011010101 11100111000 1111010001 01011011101 10011010011 0101110101 1101011100 1101010111 0111100111 1101111111 1100011101 11110101111 0111011111 1111110101 1101010111 01001010111 1101100111 1001010101 1101100111 1111011111 0101110111 1101100100 0111111101 1101011111 0100011101 111111011010 11011111010 0101101111 1101010111 1101011101 1111101001 0111111111 1111010001 0111010001 1111111101 0101111111 111011001 1011010100 1101011111 0110 110001 0100111111 1100110101 110101101 010010011 0010101010 1101011111 10100011111 0111110101 1111010011 0111011101 01011101111 11010111 10101101100 1111010110 1101010100 110101001 11001010111 01010100 11010111 111110110 0101010101 1010111101 101100 110 11001111010 1101011101 0111010100 11111101100 1111010101 1111101101 01010000101 1111111110 11110101 10001011010 010101111100 1001010111 111001 110 1101011111 11001101 11110010100 1111011111 11110001010 0111010100 1101010111 1111111010 11000011010 1101010001 11110001010 1111010001 010100111 011000101 11011111110 111010111 11011111 101001000 01 10101111 1101101001 1111111101 0101011111 111111001010 011111 110 01011100010 0100010011 11010101110 110010 1101 01011001100 0101011111 001001101 1111010101 0101000111 10001110101 0101010011 1101110010 10111101110 11101101010 1101110001 11111111010 1111011100 01100101100 0101110101 111011101 11010101011 101111101 1101110101 1101010001 0110101101 11010111101 110101111000 11111101110 10000101010 0101010110 101111100 01010010101 1011100100 1101110100 01011110110 1101001011 1001010111 0101010101 00010100010 0100011100 0100011011 1011010100 1110110100 1001010001 0111010100 0101010111 1101011111 1101110001 1111011101 111110111 11010010101 01011111010 10001110111 11101110101 11000111001 11110111010 1111011101 0101010111 1001110111 11111111010 0101010011 0110011101 1101011101 11111101010 10011111011 1101010111 1101001100 1111110001 1110010111 1111010101 1111110111 01110001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 598
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 230
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, to, d, thee, thy, all, them, i, with, he, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, who, will, my are repeated.

    The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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