This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Yazdagird that begins with:

From the Shahnameh
There was a paladin, a Turk by race,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbXcXdedcfX gbhaXX iigdjkX lX bXmdXlkXfkanbX bobXXcabcclbkdXpXbomfcbXcXqfaddddooqXkkX ffmrXaoXskXdccfbkoaqaX kX bbrqX dbfX ibshXnXX ocafbbkaX bXoX rclX qsarrXkbcdkbqqX liqeX ftbXoklfscflXbbXfkkX dakXqasXlbnkX XbXaXedX soaXdosaqXdpXbXffckXXXXXoXtXaatXXXj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,6,7,2,14,40,22,2,5,4,8,9,4,4,15,5,20,13,8,100,8,8,9,7,8,3,10,6,29,8,9,20,13,5,4,4,6,4,6,4,10,5,3,4,4,27,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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110100101 01110111010 010111101 001100111001 1011011101 011111110 1101010101 1101111100 1101010111 0111000101 0100010101 110110101 1000110101 1011010001 0110011100 1101010001 11010111110 0111110100 01111101011 1101010101 0101111111 11110101110 1101011110 11010101010 0111110101 11010101010 0101110101 0101000111 1101001111 0101011100 0100010101 1101110101 11001110011 1101111100 010011011011 0101110101 1111110111 1111111111 1101010001 1111010011 1011011001 11111100101 0101000111 0101011110 001000011111 0101000101 10010101001 1101001001 1111111111 1101100100 1101111101 01111101110 111001101 0101011111 1001101111 01011110011 01111111011 0101111110 11101110010 111101100 010110111 0101111111 1011011101 1101010111 1100010001 0101011010 100101001 1100010101 1101111101 0101011101 1111010101 010110011 110110101 0101110111 111011101 0101110100 11110101110 0101010101 1101100 001 1101110101 01010101010 110101101 1100011110 0110 011111 0101111101 1101101010 1111010001 1001010101 011110111 1101011001 1110011101 0011110001 1100100101 1101011100 1101110111 0101011111 0101001100 1101110011 1111010101 1001010001 01001001110 1101110101 0101010111 1111010101 01010011101 0111011111 0100010101 011011101 110001111010 1101111101 111011101 1101110 111 1010110101 01011011010 0110110111 1100010101 010001001 11010100010 1101000101 1011110101 1101010001 1011011101 0101111101 1100010101 01010001010 1101011111 101000101 1100010101 1100110101 1100111101 0101001101 11010101101 01000010110 1101010101 0110110101 0101010100 11001010111 1110000100 1101110111 1101110111 1101010010 11110011110 1111110011 1111010110 011111111 1111011101 1001111100 1111010001 10011100010 1011000101 11100111 1100011111 0101010111 0101010111 0100011101 0101010101 1101100101 0101010101 11110110111 01010111110 0110110 101 1100110101 111100101110 01010111001 1000010001 0101111111 1100010011 01010000101 1001011111 0101111101 1100110101 1101010100 0110001101 0101101111 11111101110 11001011101 1111010101 1100011001 01110 100111 0101111101 1001010111 0101111001 0101111111 1100010001 0111010001 010101011 0101010101 010101 0101 110101010 1101011111 0101000110 0101110111 1100011111 10110011101 1111011101 1101011101 0101111101 1101011101 1111011011 1101110101 01010 10101 11010011010 0111111101 0101010101 0101010 1111 1111010111 011110 0101 1111111101 00110101110 0111011101 1111011100 0101010101 010111111 1101001111 1001011111 1111101101 11010101010 1100010001 0101111101 1011100101 1101010100 0111010111 1101010100 0101110111 11100111001 1101110101 0110001101 0101010111 1101000111 1101010111 1111000111 0111010100 1001110111 11110101011 1101111000 1110010001 1110010101 0101111111 1101010101 1101010101 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 46
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 480
  • Average number of words per stanza: 92
  • Amount of lines: 525
  • 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, of, his, with, thy, thou, not, n, from, ill, it, this, woe, for, that, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, will, to, with, his, and, woe, or, is are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, with, another 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 ' 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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