To My Son Abbas by Khurshid Banu Natavan: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem To My Son Abbas that begins with:

Parted with you, I burn night and day,
Like a thoughtless moth in a candleflame....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaaXXaabbccddeeXXaabbbbaabbff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111111 1010100100 10110100111 10100100111 11101001111 1111001010 11011111011 10110110111 110001011001 101001001011 11111111011 10100111001 1001011110 1001101010 11111001001 101111001001 1001001101 10101111001 1111101111 1111111101 1110110111 0111001111 11011011111 1011011111 1111000111 1010111110 1110101101 10111100111 01001011111 11011011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1353
  • Average number of words per stanza: 268
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words like, i are repeated.

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