This is an analysis of the poem The Bedouin's Rebuke that begins with:

Neeber, a Bedouin of noble heart,
That from good men received of praise the fee,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc ddddee fafadd cgcgaX bXbXhX eieibXXcdcdhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001000101 1001010101 1011011111 0101111111 0111011001 0111110101 0111110111 0111010111 0101010101 0111000101 0111001101 1001010111 10010000101 1101010101 1111110101 01011100101 1101011101 1101010101 1101111101 1101110101 1111011101 0101011111 1101111101 1111010111 1101011111 110101101 11110001001 1111010110 1101011101 1101111111 1111010101 1111111111 1111111111 0101110111 01011101001 1101110100 1011010101 1101110001 0111110101 1101010111 0101010101 1101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, his, he are repeated.

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