To What Shore Would You Cross by Kabir: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem To What Shore Would You Cross that begins with:

To what shore would you cross,
O my heart? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBXcbbd d bc ceaXXeBdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,1,2,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111 111 101100011 1011 10010 1001 111 101101111001 101111010101101010 11111111011111 110101011 1100111101001 111101100 01110001110 1111101 01001 111 1111 11110101001 111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, there are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, where are repeated.

    The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.

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