This is an analysis of the poem Abou Ben Adhem that begins with:
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXccccXXXdX eeee Xd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111010101 0111001101 1101011001 10011101001 11010001010 0101111101 1001000111 101010010101 1001101101 10110111010 100110010110110 0101001111 11011110111 11111101010 0101110011 01010011001 1101110111 1111011101 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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