This is an analysis of the poem Shat-Il-Arab that begins with:

For ever glorious, for ever holy,
Your sacred beaches, Shat-el-Arab,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXbdXefXaXfeagXagfcXbaXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010011010 110101110 110101010 0101010110 1111101010 01011111100 100101110 11111010010 01010001010 1101111010 100101010 100111110 1010011010 1101110010 1101001010 0010111110 0101110010 11001001110 1101111110 11001101010 1111111110 1001001010 00101001110 110100110010 01011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 500
  • Average number of words per stanza: 90
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

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