Poem Analysis of In Egypt, One Hour Isn'T Like Any Other by Mahmoud Darwish for close reading

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In Egypt, one hour isn't like any other…
each moment is a memory renewed by a bird ...

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Rhyme scheme: aXabbbXXcdaXXcabXdaXXdXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 0101100011010 1100010001101 00111101010 101001111101 111010011101 11011101110 1001000101000001 101010111010 00101010111 00101001010 10111111010 011010100011 1110101101101 10011011010 1101011101010 111101101001 011001111 01010010000110 01001011101010 1100100111010 01010001010 1010101101110 010100110100010 01001
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 1140
Average number of words per stanza: 210
Amount of lines: 24
Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; of, you are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.

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