This is an analysis of the poem The Resurgence (Islamic Lyric) that begins with:
There sounds the drum!
There on the ruined tower, dark and blank, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXca ccdeff gebedhhiigd djjcXkk Xla ggeee XclfhfXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,11,7,3,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101 1101010111 1001101 111100 111101 01001111 0010111 1010100111 001000101000111 11110011 001010011 100111111 10101101 111100100 010101111 01011101 11011 1001010 101010 101111001 010011 01101011010 1110100101 110101001 11110 10011100 1100111010101 101110110 11100101 001011 11101011 11001010 11111001001 1110101101 111010111011 010100101101 111010101111 111101 1111011 111100101 101010111 1100101 1011001 101011001 01010100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, you, we, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.
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