This is an analysis of the poem When You Were Born In This World - Dohas Ii that begins with:
When you were born in this world
Everyone laughed while you cried ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb XX cdXc eXec fegh gg XBbab XBXha XeiXi eagaXbfde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,4,4,2,5,5,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101001 1011111 101100101 1111111 1011110101010 110110101010 110101010001 010110001 10110101 01010101 01110111 1110101101 0110110101010 10101001 1000001001 01000111 1011011 1010101101 100010110011 1010111100001 110 101111 1011110 1111111 110101 110 101111 0100111 111101 1011101 110 11101010 1111101 01011010110 1100011111 1010001 010101 10011101 11111 10101010 110111 1101101 010001001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The author used the same word says at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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