This is an analysis of the poem The Dream Ring Of The Desert that begins with:
THE MERCHANT Abu Khan shunned the customs of his race,
And sought the cultured wisdom of the West.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXXd cdcd cebX Xddd ceeX fdfd Xdcd agbg XbXb hihi dece jbjb eXdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011010001 1101010001 0101101010101 01101010001 0101010110101 10101010110 1110101111011 01100110011 0101011010101 1101011101 11011101110101 1110110101 010101111101 1101111111 010111111111 1111010100 0111110010100 1100110101 01110101010101 10101001011 0100011011001 10101010111 10111010010101 11101010100 01010101110001 1101010001 11001100110101 1110010101 0100011011101 0101011101 10101011010001 1010110111 1010101110101 1101011111 11010101010001 11101011101 1111011011111 11101100101 10101111111001 11101010001 1010111110101 1101010101 01010101011101 1101110111 0101111011001 00111010101 10101011010101 00101010101 01010100011111 1100011101 01110101010101 11101010101 10101011010111 0101010010 1110101010101110 1000010101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, and, his, one, her are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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