This is an analysis of the poem Kafi 18 that begins with:
I wasted my day (the entire lifetime) in shining my teeth with Musag (a tree root) .
I spoiled all my day in makeup and in beautifying myself. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XaXaXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101100101101011010011 111110111010011 111001110110110111010 1101011111 11111010101000110001101001111001111010011 110001101010101110110111 10011111010110111010010 0010101010111101001 10010010010001111100101001101001010101000101011001001000101 11010101101101001111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 493
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 98 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 19
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, in, with, of, not, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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