This is an analysis of the poem Ghazal that begins with:

Striding down the road, if ever by any wild chance,
We meet, my dear heart,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXb cadX eXcX XdddXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101011011 11111 11110111010 11100011 1110111011 111011001 101011111 1111111111 10001100111 1111101011 111110101 111110101 011111011100 111101 11001011 11111 11100100 0100010110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, i'd are repeated.

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