Kemal Pasha by Kazi Nazrul Islam: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Kemal Pasha that begins with:

Brother Kemal, the desperate son of a frenzied mother
Has gone furious; so the devils' dens are full of hue and cry ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCDD X DD e aBCDd d afgXhf D IiIJJ aadD d jjffj dKDeeDdK D ggXggJXjDD dd flhfJddJddgmXM mm dk ABCDD nD g jjacggbXff d og GXG gdd dddXlJm aXd LDL ffpppX ggQqQbgac nd rrg gcgnfn l sssg ccc sif dddfJJ d eggbbbb g aBCDD ggg XX ngaggg cceecec f iifmffppM Xjle
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,2,1,5,1,6,1,5,4,1,5,8,1,10,2,14,2,2,5,2,1,10,1,2,3,3,7,3,3,6,9,2,3,6,1,4,3,3,6,1,7,1,5,3,2,6,7,1,9,4,6,6,4,12,3,6,2,1,10,1,5,1,2,6,5,1,5,3,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101001001010 1110010101110111 1011010101 01101011 1101101011 101001010011 111111 111111 010011010 101001001001010 1110010101110111 1011010101 01101011 1110101011 1001011 1010 1001101 11111100010 0111 11110111 1010101 111 111011 010110101 111011 011 011 01100010010 110101001010 10001011 1101101011 10010110010111 10011010101 1100110011101 10001001 01101111 1100101001 101001110101101 101010 101110101011 0101 0101 101110101011 111000101110111 101010 111 0100111011010 1110101100101 1111011100 11110001111 11111101 011 011 11101001010101 01101011 1101101011 1001011111 1011 10001101000011 110101111101 111 11011110101111 011011 01111111010111 01010111 011011 1010010101111111 1111 1011011011101010 1 110010 111111 101011111 1111111111 1001011001011 1101010110 100101001001010 1110010101110111 1011010101 01101011 1101101011 100101111011 111 010101010110101010 1110101011111 11100101110101 01011010010 10001100101 1111010110010010 0100101001010 1011011010101101 11111010101 11101 11110110101 100101010111 01011101101011000 1101100101 11110 10110110101011 11110 010011001011100010 1110011 1001010111 0101111 1010000101 1100111111010 11001010010010 1101010 011 01 0101011101101010010 101110101110110 10111110101011 111 111 111 00111101010 101101011 100111010100 110101010 111111110 1111110 1110010101010 00100101110 11101010 1001011010 11101010 1010100101 1001110 1111110110100110 01010111 1001001001011101011 1001110111 110110111101 10101111 11010110 01010101011101 110011 1111101 101101101 101101010111 1101101 110111111101101 11111011 101010010 101010101 100101010 00111101 101011101 111001101 11011010010 11110110101 0101010010 11101010 01001101111 10101101 101010101 011 011 10010101011 1100101 1001110 110111 1001101101111 11111001 1111010110110101 1011111 100101010101110 10101001001010 1110010101110111 1011010101 01101011 1101101011 0110101010110111111 101011001010101010 1000010010 11100101101100 0111010110 1111110101111001 1010 00101001010 11010 0110110 1111101010110 111001011111 0110111 1101011010100 11010110010101 0110110101001101 10101 10101001111 100101111110 10111010 1110010110 1101001 111111 11111011 00101111 101001011110 111001111110 111111 01011010110010101 1000101001011001101 11011101011000 01111 1011110 111101111011 0111111001 01011011101 01011111001 1111101 1110111111 0111110111111 11111 101011 1111010 1110101010101 1101101001010101 1111011101 1011101111 011101011111 1010 1011111011101 01110010101 111011101011010 1011001011010 1011111011101 1010110101001 0111101110111101 111111011100 111011 101111010 11011011 101101101111 11010110101 1111010110110101 011111000000010 111111011101 011010 10100100100101010 11101110110101 11101010111 01101011101 11010101110101001010 110110001001111101010111101010111 1010111 0111111 111101111 11111100010010 1111111 1111 01010111110 111110 011011010101100 11110 110101101010010001001001001000101101011111 011 011 1011101 011 011 01010110001101110 111110111 0111 1111010 1011010111 11011111 1101111 011 011 11111011011 1001111010101011 11111 1010101111 111 110010 1011010101 11100100110 00101010 10111 10111 01110010101110010 1001100100001001101 00110101 100101001001010 1110010101110111 1011010101 01101011 1101101011 0100101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 71
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 291
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • 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; left, right, done, kemal, with, shout, ha, bravo, ho, no, of, young, drum, deep, they, and, you, he, our, souls, on, in, one, true, hou, hurrah, stop are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words left, bravo, hurrah, with, i, they are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, don't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines worked, left, done, ho, shout, ha, devils, more, free, is, care, sun, on, long are repeated).

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases left, ha connect the lines.

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