Hamd: Allahu, Allahu! by Kazi Nazrul Islam: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Hamd: Allahu, Allahu! that begins with:

I asked the flower, 'tell me, O flower, tell me! '
Whence did you get such fragrance, such beauty? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbX XXXXX cXaXX XcXbX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011110111 1011110110 1110110011010 1011110101101 100100 11001011011 101110101111 1001010110010 1010110111010 100100 111111110 1011010101 1011101000100010 101001111011 100100 101010101001001100 111110010101 01111001 111101000110100011 100100 0100101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; me, ' are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word allahu at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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