Looking At The Grinding Stones - Dohas (Couplets) I by Kabir: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Looking At The Grinding Stones - Dohas (Couplets) I that begins with:

Looking at the grinding stones, Kabir laments
In the duel of wheels, nothing stays intact. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX aa Xa bb ca aX bX aa dd cc aX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10101011001 00100110101 101010110101 1111110101 011110101110 001001100101 1111101 1001011001001 10101110101110 1011001010101100010 1111101001011 111101010100110 010010011011 11110010101 11010110011 111001101011 10000101101101 10101100010011 1011011101101 111010110011 0101011010111 0111010011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; work is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines one, all, wise are repeated).

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