This is an analysis of the poem Peasant's Eid (Celebration) ! that begins with:
Belal! O Belal! The crescent (helal) shines in the western horizon!
Seeing what is going on, are you hiding in shame in some desert-grave's...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd aaeeffgghh eeccffeeee ffbbfXiiaa eejjeeXgaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101100101010010010 101010111100101101010 11110110110101000010 1111001010101011001010 11110010101 0111010100111 1000111101110110010110 011011011000100100110111110 111101001011110101 01011001001100101101 101010100101011011001 101101100111010010 101101110111 010011111010101 101110001101010100 0111101001101000100010 01110100101010101110 1011010101010110 10010011100101 1011101101001 010101101010001010 1101011110100110010 1101000110110110001011 111001011101111101 11101000111010111011101 01101011101001011011001 1110111010010010110 101001101101001000010110 0110111101001001 1110001010100101101 1011011111010110 01000101011000100110 10101111010001 0100110111110100110 110101010110111011 11011111111001001 11011111110101010 111010100101111101001010 10111010101101 0101001011001001111101 1111011011110 00111101000101000110 111010111110100001001 101101010010101001110011 1011001010101101001010 011110101101011111 1011101111010101101010 1110101010100011001010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 739
- Average number of words per stanza: 131
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 76 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, with, you, have, of, to, who, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, you, those are repeated.
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