This is an analysis of the poem Anwar that begins with:
[A dark prison-house guarded by sentries at Constantinople. Thc mid-night of a new moon with silence prevailing everywhere, except occasional...
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- Rhyme scheme: X A abc cdXe Abb affXaec ggdh AXidbdc Adc bijkk AbiaiXa AkX LibjL Aiib mgiam Aciekbbe g b d XhaA i X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,3,4,3,7,4,7,3,5,7,3,5,4,5,8,1,1,1,4,1,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011011011011001011100110100101010101001001010010101100100010010100010100101011101000101110101011110110011100111000110010100101101010110011100111111110111111010010110101110101110001000010010100010111010010101111010001010 1010 10111 1111 1011010111 1001 011100011 0111111110 010010010110 1010 111101011101 110111000011 111011 111110 011111001010011 1110010100 1110111010 10101111010 101111101 1011101 01101110 01001011010 1110101 1010 11011111 1011010100101 1001010110101 0011010011011101 1101010010111001 101101001 1010 111101010110101 111111011111 10101101 10101001 010111101111 101100001010 10111101 1010 001000100101 1111101100100 1010110111 0101010010111011 10010111100101 10101101 1010 111101011101 001011001011 101010 111011110 11010010000101 00101101001 101010 1010 010111010 110011101 100001101 101111 101101 01001011001 01101101 101111 1010 110101100100101 0101010011110010 1101110 110110101 0111011010101011 1111010010100101 1100110 1000101010100010111010111101010111010110 010010111 101000110101010101001000110010010011011100100110111110110101111 101011100 1101 011010011001 1010 010100110011011011100101110111101 0100100100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 79
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, his, of, anwar, more, no, young, mother are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, anwar are repeated.
The author used the same word anwar at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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