This is an analysis of the poem Subinoy Mustafi that begins with:

This autumn night the tale of Subinoy Mustafi crosses my mind.
This all-knowing young man had the amazing power of making the cat and the mouse...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabXXbXXXXa X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101001001011 011011100101001001101101011111 01110010101 101011010010 01000111001011 111101011 1010100111 101001011111 101101001100 011001 101101110010 10010101101 01011010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mouse, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word this is repeated.

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  • summary of Subinoy Mustafi;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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