This is an analysis of the poem Chaman Main Subah Ye Kahti Thi Ho that begins with:

chaman main subah ye kahti thi ho kar chashm-e-tar shabnam
bahar-e-bag to yun hi rahi lekin kidhar shabnam ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011011011111110 101101110101010 1111111110110 1011111010110 100111101100110 1011011011010 1111110101101 1010111110110110 101101111110 1010111110101010 10101101010111 111110111110 1101100111101010 110110101110110 1101111110111 101011101111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; shabnam, ki, na are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word na is repeated.

    The author used the same word na at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines shabnam is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word shabnam at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Chaman Main Subah Ye Kahti Thi Ho;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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