This is an analysis of the poem How The Chiefs Demanded From Shirwi The Death Of Khusrau Parwiz that begins with:

From the Shahnameh
Shirwi, a timid, inexperienced youth,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcddXeffcgfdX XXehfiX ecXjbfkilcmXXdX flfgX iinjfhgXX XX coX XpX ignmoeplhlhllX lXgkehee XellcfleeXa ggbbXaqqffggggddppffXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,7,15,5,9,2,3,3,14,8,11,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 00100 10010001001 1101011101 1100111111 1101111101 1101111001 0100001001 0110110001 1101111101 1111110001 1111110011 1101111001 11010111011 1001010111 01101100110 1011011110 0101111101 1101011001 0101110100 1111010101 0111011001 110100 01110 1101000101 11110101110 0101010111 0101011101 0111011101 11110101110 0101001001 1111010001 0111111101 11110101110 110101110 11010111010 1111010111 00110 11101 011101001 1001011101 110110111 1101011111 1101010111 1101001101 010011010 11010101010 10101011111 1110011101 010111011 0100111111 10111101111 0101111110 01010101110 1110101111 1101010101 11010111110 1101010111 1101110101 11000101010 0111010111 1101010101 110101000 11110101010 1010101101 1101011101 0111111101 011010111 0101010001 1101100101 01010101001 1110010001 1101110101 0111110100 1001100101 01010101010 0101010101 1101011100 1011010101 0111010101 10100010111 0110000111 110101111 1010110101 1001010001 1010010101 1101110011 010001101 1001111111 0111110101 1100110001 0101011101 110101101 1111110101 0100011101 1111010101 1100010101 0101010111 1101000101 10110001011 0110110001 010101001 0101111111 0111001000 0101010111 1101010001 0111011101 10011100111 1111011101 1011011101 1100101101 1001101101 0111111101 110111110 1111110001 1100010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 402
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 115
  • 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; of, on, one, and, his, its, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are 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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