Poem Analysis of Ahmad Al-Za'Tar by Mahmoud Darwish for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Ahmad Al-Za'Tar that begins with:

For two hands, of stone and of thyme
I dedicate this song.. For Ahmad, forgotten between two butterflies ...

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Rhyme scheme: abCDcceecdaXcebbXXffXbcXCDcX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 11101101 110101110010011101 01111111101 010111101011 00101100110011011 011010100010010011 1101 0101 101110 011101011001 011111010101 11101101000 1001011111 1111100101010 0100110010010010101 010111001111 0010001 010011010100 11001110 110011100 1100111010010111 001000101 1010 111010010110010 01111111101 010111101011 111001011 11010010010100
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 1253
Average number of words per stanza: 231
Amount of lines: 28
Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in, for, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines and, alone are repeated).

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Ahmad Al-Za'Tar by Mahmoud Darwish: poem analysis

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